Have you ever typed up an interesting rant, only to accidentally click outside of the rant editor and have the whole damn thing disappear?

Ok DevRant, you get my "your number one" today

🖕🏼

I have, it sucks

For comments it luckily still saves it

it's still there when I re-open the rant editor usually, not sure why it isn't for others. Is this a Firefox thing, saving values for forms?

I don't post a lot, but the few times it happened to me I literally just gave up on the post

It doesn't happen for me. Whether it's rants or comments.

Which browser? This is NOT a problem on a default Chrome desktop setup.

Tested it

1. clicked the + button to write a new post, wrote "hello"

2. closed the modal by clicking outside the text input.

3. clicked the + button again to open the modal once more. My text "hello" persists and I can resume writing.

@jestdotty nazi doctrine is usually predictable but this time I have no idea what the heck else herr Toss could've originally written.

edit: actually, I bet it's about dei

@jestdotty the comic is edited, which means that the original message by stonetoss was some other nazi nonsense, and I couldn't think of another message that fit the comic well at first.

the lesson learned here is make sure you copy the content before accessing the mouse in any web-edit. Web editing is always risky compared to editing in a real app. 😉