AW site is driving me insane!

I'm not sure what to do about the timing out, but have you tried restoring auto-saved content? That might recall some of the responses that you lost--there should be an option in the bottom-left of the text box?

Next time you log in, look for a box to check that says keep me logged in. You probably have to scroll down to see it.


I have had your experience on other forums and it makes me want to cry sometimes. Now on any forum if I have a post I put a lot of time into, I am in the habit of making a copy to the clipboard. You should do that before you hit reply with every post until the problem is resolved.

Another thing I do often is copy my clipboard to a text file so I can use the copy function without losing a post I still need to save.

Yes it is annoying. Can't do much about that.

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shortstorymachinist said:

I'm not sure what to do about the timing out, but have you tried restoring auto-saved content? That might recall some of the responses that you lost--there should be an option in the bottom-left of the text box?

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Good point! A feature of this forum I love.

Yeah it does autosave -- a little box appears when you re-open a reply window in the same thread saying 'restore auto-saved content?' to click... though if it's not recognizing you, it may not work, dunno.

Easiest would be to just ctrl-a then ctrl-c (or command obvs), before you hit post reply.

As to the site itself timing out and blank pages, the site was having an issue a while back but it seems to me to be fixed?

Jeremy

log off
clear your cache and cookies
Close all tabs and windows
Completely Quit your Web browser
log back in and click the small box on the top right that says Remember Me

The auto log off is tracked by a cookie. If you don't click Remember Me, it will log you off.

Regarding the "security notices," check your security settings; if you have them set too high, you will receive warnings because this is a twenty year old site, with lots of legacy posts using http:// in links instead of the "new" https://.

Avatars and images that are on member's own sites may not use https:// either; I suspect that's what's causing the security warnings.

All hail the most incredible computer expert on AW.

What I do is write it in a Word document and paste it from there. Mostly that’s because some of my stuff is kept for my own records, but at least I never lose anything.

I'd almost left AW entirely because of my frustration with technical site issues. I tried a new browser as a last resort. Kiwi Browser (on mobile devices) doesn't give me any of the problems that Firefox and Chrome do. Access on my desktop is limited, but I haven't lost any posts or hit white pages on Kiwi.

I was getting a bunch of 500 errors earlier today Then they randomly went away.

Our site has not been down, but if you try to access the site when the backup script is running, you'll likely have problems.

Thanks for having the information to support AW in your footer. I'd missed that before. Just tossed some money in the pot.

I've lost too many communities due to just this problem. An active community requires some powerful hosting. Without monetization, there's almost no way to keep it going!