I am sure I am not the only one who this has happened to - you're sitting there typing up a fairly long, thoughtful post or comment on a photo and you click the submit button and BAM! the nightly maintenance script boots you out into the gutter, obliterates all those nice words you just wrote and slams the door shut, telling you to come back in fifteen minutes. Sometimes I realize the time and make sure I copy the text to the clipboard, but usually I forget. And ironically, this ONLY happens to me when I am posting something worthwhile, thoughtful and probably informative - not my usual nonsensical dribble that seems to have no problem making it into the system.
So--- I know this can be done - can the site save the text in a cookie or go back to the form with the text in it and ask me to wait if it can't just post it into the database before redirecting to the door-slammed-in-my-face screen?
Come on, am I the only one?? Let's band together in true mob fashion and do som' bout dis!
It is worse for us, who live on this side of the world, as your night time maintenance plays havoc with us at this time. Especially when I am uploading my entry for a challenge, with all the processing steps and information about this entry.
When I finally finish, and touch the button to submit my image, we then see the maintenance message on the screen and we then have to redo our submission.
It is amazing the number of times this has happened. Like Ken, it has also happened when I am writing a comment in a thread plenty of times as well.
I now try and make a mental picture in my head when it is about to happen, and like Ken said, make a copy.
It's the one that looks for all the big pictures posted to threads that were not reported during the day, and automatically makes them links or thumbnails :)
It happens here in Australia for 15 minutes every night. Over there sometime in the early mornings at around 3am your time, our dinner time here around 5pm.
It's the one that looks for all the big pictures posted to threads that were not reported during the day, and automatically makes them links or thumbnails :)
[ just teasing you, Karen ]
I thought it generated threads and posts just to stir up controversy the next day?
It's the one that looks for all the big pictures posted to threads that were not reported during the day, and automatically makes them links or thumbnails :)
[ just teasing you, Karen ]
I thought it generated threads and posts just to stir up controversy the next day?
... all the processing steps and information about this entry. ...
I usually put my processing notes, challenge entry data (aperture, iso, shutter speed), and original file # in a simple text file using MS Notepad. I do this BEFORE uploading the image for challenge entry. I save the text file in a folder with the challenge name for future reference in case of a validation request.
I have this magic button called Back. I hit it, my post is summoned from the ether and I wait for the maintenace thing to pass before trying again.
You definitely have a magic button because mine doesn't do that. If I hit the back button during the maintenance period it loads the maintenance screen.
I have this magic button called Back. I hit it, my post is summoned from the ether and I wait for the maintenace thing to pass before trying again.
You definitely have a magic button because mine doesn't do that. If I hit the back button during the maintenance period it loads the maintenance screen.
I think if you wait until the maintenance is over, using the back button will take you back to where you were. While maintenance is still running, nothing else is active so hitting the back button will try to go to where you requested but the maintenance will interrupt it.
Call me clueless, but I don't see how any script can save anything that happens while the site is down for maintenance and not responding...
In the "OnClick()" event of the "Post" button, the text you typed could be saved locally (for example, in a browser
cookie). When the site comes back up, or the next time the user goes to DPC, the site could offer to post the original message.
Call me clueless, but I don't see how any script can save anything that happens while the site is down for maintenance and not responding...
R.
You could probably use ajax for this. As an example, google uses this feature to save your email as a draft if you don't send it out. I may be wrong, but when the site is in maintenance, it doesn't mean that the entire server is down. If that is the case, the administrators could probably figure a way to save the text to the server. just a thought.
Call me clueless, but I don't see how any script can save anything that happens while the site is down for maintenance and not responding...
In the "OnClick()" event of the "Post" button, the text you typed could be saved locally (for example, in a browser
cookie). When the site comes back up, or the next time the user goes to DPC, the site could offer to post the original message.
Well, there is only so much you can save in a cookie. I highly doubt that cookies will be the answer.
Call me clueless, but I don't see how any script can save anything that happens while the site is down for maintenance and not responding...
In the "OnClick()" event of the "Post" button, the text you typed could be saved locally (for example, in a browser
cookie). When the site comes back up, or the next time the user goes to DPC, the site could offer to post the original message.
Well, there is only so much you can save in a cookie. I highly doubt that cookies will be the answer.
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Bear is clueless. It can be done several different ways. Cookies may not be the answer (I often get hungry at that time and eat mine anyway). Waiting for maintenance to finish before hitting the back button is a good suggestion I may have done that once. The problem is that I panic and fly into rage and bash the keyboard and hurl curse words at Langdon (who hopefully can't hear them). ;-)
On a related note, whenever you have to retype a moderately lengthy post for whatever reason, it is NEVER as good as the original one you lost. So much so that I often say screw it halfway through the rewrite and just go to bed (admittedly a positive side effect). Just so y'all know that you are only seeing 90% of the crap I try to post. Darn shame I think. :)
