It's very easy to lose long comments while typing them out (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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If you navigate off the page by accident it doesn't always ask an "are you sure?" to protect your work.

This is a problem on other forums + SM, e.g reddit, but seems prevalent on lemmy.

That's all I've got to say. If there's eventually some solution or improvement to this it would be nice.

Might just be a problem with how i use my mobile device;

on this occasion i opened up anki by highlighting part of my text and then found the browser closed, so perhaps i should have just backspaced from anki to navigate back to my in-progress commment. It has happened on other occasions as well - i think one common thread is that replies to a post stsy saved but replies to a comment/reply are collapsed upon accidentally minimising a browser, and you lose it all.

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[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Where do you see the URL constantly updating while typing? Because I cant reproduce that when writing a comment. Is that directly on lemmy.dbzer0.com or are you using a different frontend? And which OS/browser are you using?

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it might be whatever frontend dbzer0 uses. Also, Firefox (latest) and macOS (26.4.1).

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

DB0 seems to use the normal lemmy-ui without any changes. Though I dont have an account there to test it. Best if you contact the admins on db0 to ask about this.

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