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for us nocturnal mners, could you possibly come up with a 'save post' feature....

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MrsShrekTheThird · 18/04/2011 02:07

during your 2am offline thingy, backup or eating biscuits or whatever you get up to that shuts the site for a couple of minutes, could you possibly replace "post" with "save" so that morons like me don't get caught time after time with writing a thoughtful or long post and then losing the bloody lot when the "offline" message turns up instead?

I am quite sure this should deter me from posting at 2am but you can't teach old dogs new tricks and I must be thick never seem to learn Blush

Grin
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MrsShrekTheThird · 18/04/2011 02:31

ohhh, wonderful. But I want the egg timer to go with it Grin

I also spend aaaages trying to remember wtf I'd typed, usually pure brilliance of course Grin

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empirestateofmind · 18/04/2011 02:26

Cross post with Madwoman, both of us had the same brilliant idea

empirestateofmind · 18/04/2011 02:24

Yup, this happens to me too. It is not just the nocturnals this affects. It also affects those of us in different time zones. I am 7 hours ahead of BST so my 9am or 10am is prime time for MN's backup.

I have found if I go back a page and then forward on my browser sometimes I haven't lost my post. I keep thinking oh should have copied that so I could paste it. But of course I never do.

Perhaps MN could do a popup saying "backup happening in 5 minutes" then we could save our post to the clipboard.

wonders if MN is down at the moment posts anyway

madwomanintheattic · 18/04/2011 02:22

oh yeeeeeeeeeeeeees. or at least flash up a blardy 'you have 60 seconds before mn goes offline' warning. i am at my most eloquent when you shut down. honest. and there's never any proof of my brilliance to be had. just me moaning for the next two hours and trying to remember what i'd typed.

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