The Book Switch Theory

[asteckley]

PS:

Ughhh. A long and detailed response lost by an unfortunate key press and no 'editor saved draft'.

I lost count of the times that happened to me.  But there are two tricks that may help:

I usually try not to take the chance with the spontaneous deletion phenomenon, which only happens in this forum editor. In replying , I immediately cut and past the pre-populated response text into a separate editor and do all the work there. Then cut and paste it back into the MyBB forum editor. 

I don't even know what mystery keys accidentally trigger, but it seems to be a flaw in the MyBB editor. It doesn't ever happen for me in any other editor. In all other respects, myBB seems to be a very good forum platform though.

(The other option I sometimes resort to is to keep submitting the unfinished response (to enact intermittent saves) and then keep hitting the edit button to continue writing. But that can cause mystery displays to other browsing users until you complete your response. There seems to be only a minor and pointless difference between "Quick Edit" and "Full Edit".)