SMF sucks

[John2038]

Hi,

if you try to post while someone else is also posting, you just loose your post with the message:


The following error or errors occurred while posting this message:
Warning - while you were reading a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.

And if you try the back button, the textarea is empty.

This should be fixed, it happen to me too many time, and I'm probably not the only one.

[Queen Tokelove]

Yep, it has happened to us all I reckon.

[leatherman]

In the case you mentioned, you shouldn't be hitting BACK. Your post should still be on that page with that notice. Review the new comments (below your in-progress post), and edit your post if needed, and then click POST again.

If you're getting a "timed-out" error, that's a different problem and just the way security features work on the web.

here's the trick to beat these problems on ANY site!

if you write a post and take too long,
(or just to be sure! I do this with EVERY post)
just before clicking submit, click inside the textarea,

push CTRL-A to highlite your post
push CTRL-C to copy your post
then SUBMIT

if you are timed out, just go back, click in the EMPTY textarea

push CTRL-V to paste your reply
and hit SUMBIT fast 

there are two other alternatives
1) type your replies in a text editor first
    then copy and paste it into the form when you are done
2) type faster. LOL

Hope that helps!
mikie
http://reigningpages.com/computertutor

[bear60]

Thats great advice Mikie.