Technology is such a fickle and frustrating thing to work with sometimes.
Either the Internet Gods(TM) want me to never make a friend online, or my WiFi service has become sentient and drops my signal every time I write something kind to a colleague - but, I just wrote a 3rd(!) post on M.p, and a couple (very good) posts on my Ghost blog several days before that (which I have retired the Ghost blog, by the way - sticking to the old platform for journaling/communicae), and they were all "lost to time and space" due to the entry (the text, itself) not auto-saving in the browser, or the cookies *within* the browser, or however the hell it works.
So. disappointing. when that happens :(
Anyway, I <3 The Midnight, truly, (and all the patrons here), but I can't put more stuff here (besides a quick reply sometimes, maybe) if the words disappear in the end.
(and yes, I *could* put the entry in an offline editor, and copy/paste the words into the textarea of a/the blog platform, but at that point, why not just have a "Select File" system and upload a .md file? That could/would never happen - pure sarcasm).
Back again, I hope. Love to all. And I hope this entry posts correctly :)
Technology is such a fickle and frustrating thing to work with sometimes.
Ha, yes! It was actually a response to your last post that I lost 200+ words to. I was basically saying that I, too, feel (or felt) "nostalgic for a time I will never know". But got over that because nostalgia was driving me crazy. Usually it would happen when I listened to 60s/70s music. A lot of people go through that from what I understand.
Hopefully the "autosave draft" thing can be implemented here soon. Until then, *fast* replies so I don't lose connection ;)
hope you're well
OH NO! I'm so sorry to hear that ~tffb, I really would've loved to read everything you had to say about my post! Either way, I appreciate you sharing the gist of your sentiments with me. I have been trying to get over the longing I feel for the days of yesterday, because I feel like it's starting to eat away @ my sanity a little bit haha....
Either way, I really do hope that you're doing alright as well and that your internet/wifi gives you a break next time!
I installed a plugin for my browser to let me edit posts in a text editor for this reason — then the first time I tried it, it didn't fill the textbox when I saved and the editor window went away; I thought I had just lost a wall of text.
Fortunately, the buffer was still open in the editor, and I could switch to it in another frame, but still. Close one.
Yes, I've considered Firefox Notes or something like this for a while for just this one issue. But I rely heavily on blog editors to be "always connected/always saving", of sorts. Of course, in THIS case, the issue revolves around the fact that my WiFi drops out continually (because I tether to my phone), but saving the text "in-browser", would be good. I can and will continue to reply to things at The Midnight, but I may have to make an exception on composing full length entries, and just use Joplin Notes to write them out, then do a copy/paste job.
Sounds like a conspiracy to me! ;-)
<he types... eyes darting suspiciously back and forth... once again cursing the day Murphy was allegedly born>
Haha, as I said "the Internet Gods" have it out for me. Possibly for being such a digital atheist for so long at one point in time. Now I've abandoned all hope of ever taking a "true" or "significant" sabbatical (more theology terms!) from the WWW, and I just write and read and watch and BS around online like everyone else in the Western hemisphere. No regrets :)
> Now I've abandoned all hope of ever > taking a "true" or "significant" > sabbatical (more theology terms!) from > the WWW
That sounds to "binge dieting" for me.
I'm preferring the "eat smaller portions more - or less (when possible) - often" approach.
Of course, most of the credit goes to The Midnight Pub, where the NOT javascript and/or advertising -infested content is generally top notch, worth replying to, and never far from fun-ly clever interaction.
Yes, M.p definitely has a "wit" and a "sharpness" to the patrons who participate here.
And in regards to "binge dieting" analogy to my (past) Internet hiatuses, it FELT more like I was just outright starving myself of stimulation and information. Nothing ever happened at any time ever, and it was damn near 24/7 navel-gazing - so I scratched that approach pretty quick, and logged back on. LOL!
It was a fair amount of time ago that I tried to go "offline", though, and while being simultaneously "hooked" (addicted) to social networks (2018, or so), it was like starving myself, while simultaneously trying to set a world record for how long I could hold my breath. Essentially, not worth it. So all odds of me ever trying to do that again are zero to none.
Small bites. Everything in moderation. Careful clicking ;)