Vanishing of posts within a few seconds.
 

I click on this Safety and CRM forum and see lots of threads. Decide to reply to one but then somehow I lose Pprune and have to start again. Click on Safety, CRM, QA etc forum again and lo and behold it comes up with a vastly reduced number of posts from the first time - three only in fact and the one I tried to reply on was among those which have vanished. Anyone else struck this phenomenon?

Bugger me - they are all back again within seconds of my complaint. Gremlins around? :ugh:

I haven't come across that sort of thing .. amongst all the other little gremlin activities.

I'll refer it to the techos and see if they can come up with a specific answer.

The one which drives me to distraction is when, after spending half an hour on a long post, the system hangs and I lose the lot ... must be a case of just desserts for a misspent youth.

Very annoying indeed. I've learnt to copy my reply to the clipboard before hitting the 'submit reply' button on a long post. Ctrl-A (select all), Ctrl-C (copy).

Even better, given the apparent lack of server priority PPrune now has, is to compose the post in a simple text editor before posting. A nuisance, but far less blood from one's head on the wall.

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 ....

Can you guys give me an idea of how long is 'long' in time?

My gut reaction is you are hitting a session time limit and then being bounced to one of the many other virtual machines for load balancing. If I get a good idea of the times you are experiencing when this happens, it will help me find out.