Step 1: I was writing a comment yesterday and I had not submitted it.
Step 2: I tried to save the comment today and it got that error. It seems I have hit some timeout after having the page open too long.
If it gets that error, I guess the nice thing would be to stay on the unchanged page so that I can at least copy my comments, reload the page, and try again.
It might not work, but sometimes you can click the “backpage” in your browser and it will go back to the edit screen with the “browser saved field contents”.
I have a dodgy computer, that will just decide to crash at annoying times… usually when I am getting near the end of a long post, or editing an image, and jsut before I choose to save it. Consequently, I do most of my long response writing in a notepad file, saved on my desktop, and I “ctrl-s” literally after every full stop that I type! Then I can copy and paste in when done, and delete the desktop file as a cleanup. Sometimes I start out thinking “I’ll just post this quick reply” (like now!) and end up writing a book, and often those end up suffering the crash when it extends to something longer than “quick reply”, and those I take as a sign from above that my input just wasn’t really needed!
I tried that, but my comments were lost. I have also used an external editor to create text in the past when I knew of the risk in some application. Anyway, being a software developer myself, I was mostly just wanting to alert the developers incase it was something that could be improved on. Thanks