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719 sats \ 3 replies \ @cointastical 28 Nov 2022
I cannot be the only one that runs into this. I compose a lengthy comment reply, or composing a longform post, and somehow I accidentally press something or for whatever reason (e.g., browser crash ?) my chrome browser has closed.
And with it gone is my content that I had just spent a fair amount of time writing.
SN does have session local storage, so if I close a tab accidentally, I can recover by simply going back to the post I was composing or the one to which I was replying. But when the browser goes bye-bye, there's no recovery.
This has happened to me numerous times. Maybe I see this more than others because I almost always use Incognito mode/private browser, and thus there is no session local data saved to recover from when re-launching my browser.
So my request is for a method to explicitly be able to click Save for my draft so that I can recover it across sessions, (or maybe a periodic automatic save to SN's back-end, like after every ten seconds following edit activity, or something like that).
One thing I could do instead is hit the Post or Reply button with a draft maybe close enough to justify publishing, but then I only have ten minutes to edit/revise what I wrote, which is a problem, where a possible solution has not yet been implemented. So I really don't want to hit Post or Reply until I have the content that I am composing to be truly ready for submitting.
I've created an Issue with this feature request in Github, Issue #216, but wanted to ask this here:
Am I the only one that keeps having this problem with losing work when composing for SN?
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @chungkingexpress 28 Nov 2022
Try brave
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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 28 Nov 2022
Fwiw, this has never happened to me- is this just on SN or on other sites as well? chrome is a certainly a terrible memory hog...
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 28 Nov 2022
Has the browser closed without my intending for it to happen, with other sites? Yes.
It hasn't happened often enough where I have been able to figure out if it is something I did just prior to this happening, and thus it was my actions as the cause, or if it was a crash and the browser just disappeared. I have a touchpad that I'm always bumping as I type causing the mouse to click somewhere where I didn't intend. If that's the cause (e.g., clicking the X to close the browser), then I wish Chrome would let me configure it to make me confirm that I really want to close the browser (even if I have multiple tabs open).
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @chungkingexpress 27 Nov 2022
Anyone know why there are sometimes random Russia / Cyrillic posts on stacker news?
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597 sats \ 0 replies \ @Atreus 28 Nov 2022
No big reason, the guys just post in their native language & don't bother translating. I've seen some Spanish here too from time to time.
You can highlight their text and translate with a browser extension (Mate Translate, DeepL, etc), or just be a baller and learn to read more languages! :)
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597 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 28 Nov 2022
Probably because English is not a universal language, and people sometimes write exclusively using their native/primary written language (or prefer to write in that language).
A great comment reply thread on this topic was from back in April. See the suggestion by nout to have SN only show posts and replies that are in the language(s) you specify in your settings (a feature that SN might have implemented at some point in the future).
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 27 Nov 2022
Glad to wake up and have another day of life blessed to be apart of the bitcoin community! happy Sunday stackers!
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370 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 27 Nov 2022
Sheesh just read Hayes’s latest article. The financial engineering that goes on is completely mind blowing. I was doing an internal thought experiment. So if I used Gemini earn product my BTC was re-hypothecated like 3 or 4 times just to end in a trust so some dude can make 2% management fee. If an ETF was approved this trade would’ve been dead. Just wild this stuff goes on.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 28 Nov 2022
link to this?
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66 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 29 Nov 2022
https://cryptohayes.medium.com/white-man-5001d38a5e4e
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43 sats \ 9 replies \ @00 27 Nov 2022
I have an idea for a browser extension, but I'm not a good programmer, and looking for helpful solutions and tools.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @random_ 27 Nov 2022
Whats the idea?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @00 27 Nov 2022
Making looking up Bitcoin addresses easier.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cointastical 28 Nov 2022
FYI, address re-use is a bad practice, for security and for maintaining financial privacy.
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @00 28 Nov 2022
I wanted to make something that when you hover over an address, it will show basic information about it, like current balance. Do you want to help?
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @pitiunited 27 Nov 2022
With a little bit of javascript you should be able to make one: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/building-chrome-extension/ (for Chrome).
This reminds me of an extension I made over 6 months ago when I was really bored 😅
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @00 27 Nov 2022
Thank you!
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301 sats \ 2 replies \ @kilianbuhn 27 Nov 2022
tbh I have no idea how the world has so many browser extensions and yet of all the programmers I know and knew I never met a browser plugin dev
It's kinda weird 🤔🤔
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @pitiunited 27 Nov 2022
😅
And there's no browser plugin dev job offers too.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @00 27 Nov 2022
So either there is a super premium on browser plug-in developers because they are so rare, or you don’t need to be a programmer to develop a browser extension. I’m not sure what to make of this.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @pitiunited 27 Nov 2022
Messing around with React while working on https://uselessshit.co 😉
Yesterday I added Christmas Card format to the https://uselessshit.co/card-generator 🙂
Today I'm working on a cropping feature for the card backgrounds.
Have a good one!
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