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    Just an FYI we've removed the necro bumping rule from the site (please let me know if there are still remnants anywhere!) We no longer feel the rule is necessary across the site, spam rules will still apply though.

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    I feel like this needs wider investigation or at least a wider grasp of whom it's happening to and what browsers are being used etc.

    My understanding is that the autosaves aren't stored on the site, they are cached instances in your web browser, you can confirm this by typing a reply up and then browsing on your phone or a different browser and the message won't be saved (only on the browser you typed in) this means one of two things, either a) the caching is somehow getting deleted by an extension (pop-up blocker, tracking blocker) and/or application (cc cleaner/malware bytes etc) or b) your browser is not allocating the cached saved message to your web browser instance which seems unlikely as far as I'm aware caches are saved per domain and this site hasn't changed domain.

    I've never had this happen to me, in fact quite the opposite the autosave feature has saved me numerous times when I've accidentally closed a tab or restarted my machine and I've forgotten to post a thread and I've not once had any of the issues reported.

    I don't think it's anything to do with the site but rather a user by user basis, as I've not had this reported elsewhere.

    So first and foremost is if you're writing up an important post (i.e. a long RP reply) don't rely on the site to retain your messages to the letter, the save feature is not intended as a draft feature, it's merely an "oops you forgot this, this is what we've recovered" feature, this isn't a site issue this is a user issue, and I'm sorry to be blunt about it but relying on it to keep hold of your posts that haven't been posted is just a failure on the individuals part.

    HOWEVER, it should do its best to retain what it can from a caching perspective but due to the nature of it happening to people intermittently (and only certain people) leads to me believe that it's on their end and not the site, for those it's happening to, I can only request that you do some further testing on the matter, try and draft a couple of posts in a different browser and not your primary (edge/chrome/firefox etc) and use this as your "NCM" driver for a few weeks and see how you get on.

    Apologies that this isn't a concrete easy solve but I'm fairly confident that it's not a site issue.

     

     

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