Very annoying indeed. I've learnt to copy my reply to the clipboard
Even better ... is to compose the post in a simple text editor
Concur with both .. now, all I need to do is discipline myself into doing that all the time .. rather than just for a few posts after I lose a big one.
I can recall a speedboat ride across an eyebrow-raising body of water in an Asian location years ago on a contract audit job .. while hanging onto my laptop for all I was worth (knowing that if we broached I'd be dead from dissolving long before drowning). Numerous times I prayed to a wide variety of deities for the deliverance of my laptop (you guessed it .. I hadn't backed up before leaving home). I think I was a good boy and backed up religiously thereafter .. for about two weeks as I recall ....