Losing everything when submitting a post
One of the worst things you can do in your UI
is to allow a person to spend 5 minutes typing something in on a post
and then simply because they clicked on the wrong area on the screen or window - they all of a sudden have LOST all their work of the past 5 minutes.
Please dont allow the user to navigate away from a input window - where they have typed stuff in - unless you are sure that is really what they wanted to do - and abort their submission. at least warn thom of what is about to happen.
1) Clicking on the X used to do this
2) clicking on similar ideas does this
3) and various other actions I believe.
please make it harder for people to lose their hard work in typing in a submission.
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In fairness, this was also a problem in GetSat. I would type a relatively long piece, but then decide to take a close look at a screenshot another user had added. As soon as I enlarged / clicked on the image, all my text would disappear. I'm not saying an improvement is not necessary on this forum, however.
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Kinda impossible when they use those stupid modal windows to enter the comment which blocks your view of the very posting that you are responding to.
And the loss of all entered but not yet submitted text in the Communities area in general is far worst than it was in GetSatisfaction.com. Anything that involves a refresh will toss all of your work.
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"Ron Tanner urges people to type things up in a word processing document"
I'm in two minds about this. Firstly it is the sensible and pragmatic advice that many of us give. But secondly - Ron has just had at least something to do with creating this facility - and he's telling us not to use it as it's built. Hmm.
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