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The5lacker·7/30/2014, 6:16:05 AM·25 votes·5,440 views

Okay so I just spent a good two hours writing up a champion concept at 2 in the morning, I'm tired, and I hit the backspace key.

Which causes me to load the previous page. Now, this isn't the fault of the boards. This is the fault of Firefox, and it's a feature designed by someone who has no comprehension of what a keyboard does. They should be castrated, but that's not what's giving me an aneurism at the moment. What's giving me an aneurism is that when I hit the forwards button, my entire, nine paragraph, carefully balanced post was gone.

Completely. Backing and reloading the page lost EVERYTHING I wrote. What even the hell guys? Reloading a page shouldn't throw everything a user's wrote out. The old forums didn't do that. Hell, my computer could CRASH and when my computer booted back up the forums would have my post saved and ready to use.

What even the hell guys? Can we get some sort of autosaving drafts rolling or something? Good god, this kind of thing is a nightmare.

42 Comments

RiotKrylhos7/30/2014, 6:13:55 PM17 votes

This has bit me in the arse once as well. Once we get a couple other items buttoned up, I'd like to look into resolving this kind of negative experience for unsaved posts.

John Berserk7/30/2014, 11:48:56 AM10 votes

Not that this will bring your post back, but for future reference, you should try writing out your champion concept in a word or text document. That way, backspace merely deletes a character. :P

Also it gives you more time to look at it and edit it and whatnot.

ChickenWrap7/30/2014, 7:21:37 AM3 votes

Use Google Chrome to prevent things like this from happening.

Sir ArmaMalum7/30/2014, 10:39:17 PM3 votes

This has gotten me a few times as well, my laptop is a tablet hybrid (touchscreen) and the screen is buggy as hell. sometimes it will randomly click somewhere on a page, and if I'm, say, typing a long draft of a post and hit backspace at the wrong time -poof- all gone. :(

I think everyone here either really wants this feature or doesn't yet realize they want this feature, but as Krylhos said, it's always a matter of priorities and this may seem simply to start but can turn into a huge time-sink depending on bugs, compatibility and such. So it's a "yes but not now" imho.

Cuix7/31/2014, 3:08:50 AM2 votes

Lazarus plugin.

MrBuffington7/30/2014, 2:34:18 PM2 votes

lol yea, I usually write it up in a word processor (or at least a sticky note) before transferring it onto the boards. A save function would be really nice on the boards though

AbiwonKenabi7/30/2014, 2:29:47 PM2 votes

I feel for you. Its one of the reasons, when I'm feeling creative, I put down my initial concepts on paper. Yeah I know, PAPER. What is this, the 90s?

Hopefully your concept stuck in your head enough? Otherwise we will use your sacrifice as a way to fight to save all future fan-created champion concepts and other lengthy posts from the horrible fate of your own. God bless.

steelblacksky7/30/2014, 7:57:07 PM2 votes

have you tried the lazarus plugin for whatever browser you use? saves the text entered anywhere in the browser in question every so often as entered and has a clipboard list like backlog of text entry so you can retrieve it later, even if the website it was being entered in no longer exists.

it doesn't ALWAYS work, but it has saved my shiny metal hindquarters a few times.

AkaiNeko47/30/2014, 9:56:00 AM2 votes

Just checked. I'm using Chrome and yep, it's gone. That shit ain't good, Riot.

Sindustry7/30/2014, 1:05:10 PM2 votes

In college they teach you to save every 10 minutes, for reasons of that exact nature.

And yeah, I've experienced that before. Notepad++ ftw.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/924490 to disable in firefox fyi.

AK47WOLF8/4/2014, 8:45:32 PM1 votes

If you haven't learned by now to CTRL+C every few minutes when writing a long post, I'm not sure what to tell you.

nosafterburn7/30/2014, 8:07:06 AM1 votes

this is why you should always copypasta before you click. For Saftey!

Jingerbeardman7/30/2014, 9:12:52 PM1 votes

This happened to me once before and from then on I learned to simply write everything in notepad or word first and save it that way. The net is to fickle for longer entries into forums and so it is best to use precautionary measures :P

thing is that if you click into a new page and hit back your form data, what you typed, can sometimes still be there. But hitting back causes the browser to backpedal and if you hit forward it loads the page as if it were fresh.

Nightpower7/30/2014, 9:31:48 PM1 votes

Two words: Google Chrome

S3thc0n7/30/2014, 11:03:18 PM1 votes

If your browser does not support saving text in edit boxes, try an addon. Firefox for example can sport 'Lazarus: Form Recovery', which will backup everything 100%.

Angry Monster7/30/2014, 11:35:39 PM1 votes

The reason why this is happening is cause the forums do not continuously update when on a page. This is a bandwidth saving feature for most sites. The system would have to ping your web browser every 30 sec to check for changes in order for an auto save.

Your idea is feasible but takes a lot of bandwidth when you consider this forum is now global instead of regional.

Pikalicious7/31/2014, 9:16:11 AM1 votes

Don't worry, you weren't on to anything special.

Linna Excel7/31/2014, 4:48:45 PM1 votes

Firefox is supposed to have an addon in case something like that happens.

BLACKB0MBER7/31/2014, 4:55:12 PM1 votes

I literally hate internet browsers because of that functionality. I dont know whose ideas it was, but its dumbest thing ever, especially with forums and long emails.

Also get in the habit of copying often when you write wall of texts, or anything you dont feel like rewriting. Its happened too many times to me.

God God8/1/2014, 9:28:49 AM1 votes

Or you could write it in a computer program e.g (Word, Note pad) then copy and paste. That way you'll have it even if something unfortunate happens. Just don't forget to save often.