Members Losing Posts -- Is there a mod to help?

Well, I have been receiving PMs from my Members about losing posts. They state this happens when they are typing a long post. I have adjusted the Forum so that they are not logged out during "inactivity" while typing a post.

Is there a mod that can help cache or keep a copy of a Members post?

I'm not sure what could be going on. Any tips or suggestions would be great.

 

I thought there was a timeout normally set for 15 minutes of inactivity, and possibly another one that seems to be set for an hour. Regardless, when typing a post that takes a really long time I recommend to people to at least hit the 'preview' button periodically. Or if it takes a really long time to compose a text editor might be better to use.

If there is any doubt then control-A, right click, copy, is a good thing to do in case the forum decides that it has been too long.

 

Thats about all you can do is increase the cookie time out. The only other solution would be to make sure they copy it before hitting submit, then if they get logged out, to log back in and just CTRL+V it

 

This is my suggestion as well.

It's never happened to me while I had "Remember Me" checked, at least in vB, but it has happened several times when I was posting on a phpBB board.

I've even gone as far as pasting into a text editor as I'm working on my post at regular intervals.

 

I've had a slightly different experience with this.

I've composed some lengthy posts and have done what Abomination suggests on occasion.

When I have done the copy to clipboard or elsewhere, and I have timed out, upon hitting submit I get the -- you don't have access, and it shows login. I just relogin and my post is there, submitted.

A separate experience for one of my users was that he was constantly being timed out...as in like within minutes. One solution, albeit not complete, was the checking the box -- Remember me -- near the login entry fields. He later found out it was a browser issue (FF). Never found out the issue, but has never occurred again.

 

I think this depends on the browser possibly? I know i've been able to do that in Chrome 90% of the time, but in IE or FF I dont think i've ever successfully done it.

 

I only use FF. I can't explain it any further. Only other way to understand this behavior, it's like the cookie gets lost w/ some browsers or something? Not a very technical explanation, I know.

I've not used Chrome, and only use IE when forced to.

Maybe I should check my board settings related to this....?

 

Seems to be a dead project for now at least, but you might want to look into: vB Drafts - vBulletin.org Forum

 

Copying the post before submitting and even at regular intervals while writing it is very wise. I'm using Firefox 3 and if I hit submit and the page doesn't load for some reason, I can usually hit the back button and everything I typed is still there. If not, I just paste it back as I always copy my posts before submitting.

 

Thank you for all of the suggestions. I pretty much suggested the same advice to the Members on my Forum.

 

In vBulletin, ticking the "Remember Me" box sorts this problem.

What I do is alter the template code to ensure it is ticked by default.

Admin Control Panel > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Dropdown: Edit Templates > Navigation / Breadcrumb templates > navbar

Find:

Code:

<input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="103" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" />

Change to:

Code:

<input type="checkbox" name="cookieuser" value="1" tabindex="103" id="cb_cookieuser_navbar" accesskey="c" checked="checked" />

 

Indeed.. you could probably also add a button that would copy the contents of the form, like what is used on many image/file hosts