Post content deleted before submission, logged off

[joshuar]

So, I was writing a reply to a post, and apparently it took me longer than what I had left to be logged on (60 mins, I guess), and when it came time to submit, I hit "Preview" to look at my glorious post, and it took me to the log on screen. So I logged on, and my post was deleted. lol. I'm not going to write it again.

Is there anyway to have it not delete your posts if your logged off? That'd be a pretty useful feature for the forum. I imagine people would feel more inclined to help if they didn't have their replies deleted!

I did make the change of clicking on the "keep me logged in" checkbox, by the by.

Thanks,
Josh

[eXpl0it3r]

Sorry to hear that, I know exactly how frustrating it is, to just lose such answers due to technical "problems".
Though I've never experienced a problem with the SFML forum (I'm always logged in), but have lost a lot of anwers/comments on other pages, thus I now always copy the text to the clipboard before pressing any buttons and if I get a login page, I immediately go back in the browser history, Chrome and Firefox usually save the content.
If I'm writing longer answers I even copy & paste it to notepad++, just to be safe.

As for the forum software, I'm not sure if it's so easy to change, but maybe there's a module for SMF?

[Laurent]

I have no idea.

For this kind of request, you can directly check the SMF extensions/doc/forum. I haven't got more knowledge than anybody else on this subject

[io]

For long posts I suggest getting in the habit of writing in notepad or something first.  Very frustrating when it happens XD