I have some issues when I post on here. Mainly the problem is I write very long entries. I'm sorry but I guess I'm trying to work out something from childhood, or maybe I'd make a good lawyer. Then again I completely hate legalease and reading a 5 page printed EULA full of jargon no 'normal' person can understand (normal meaning someone OTHER than lawyers). [Who do these people write these things for anyways? Only lawyers seem to understand them] Anyways I wasn't going to get into my problems with lawyers, license agreements or anything else like that.
I have some issues with .Text and it's mainly because I spend a lot of time writing a post. Much of it is me refining what I write as I do emails. I spend an outrageous amount of time pouring ideas into what I write, constantly refining it as I go. If I were to simply type out everything and not constantly refine it, no one would probably understand it, including myself. I can literally spend an hour on an email that is literally 5-10 lines because I want to make sure that I say something right, especially when talking to a customer. I could care less what I say to fellow employees because somehow they understand what I'm trying to say for the most part.
Well if I spend a lot of time on something and I go to click Post, .Text basically drops me out of the session. This is good for security reasons but bad for me. My post is then completely lost in the abyss of the Internet Explorer cache. .Text asks you to login again but when you login, you don't see your post all you see is a blank screen. Hit the back button? Blank post. I have to remember to copy the text out, put it in Word or something to keep the HTML formatting, then log back in and correctly import it into .Text.
I suppose I could use Word but the HTML it makes is annoying. It also imposes fonts on each paragraph and I'd rather have .Text handle the font through it's template. Having to use the Word clean then go back through and delete all of the font tags isn't something I like to do. I could also use w.bloggar which I have used before, but it seems to format posts all weird for some reason. It may be that I have an older version with bugs, but if I write something with correct formatting, login to .Text to see it one big paragraph then I'm not about to try to go back and format it correctly. I'd rather just hand edit the damn HTML in notepad and be done with it. Sure it'll take an incredible amount of time, but I can do it.
This problem happened yesterday and it's happened a lot in the past. Usually when I lose a post this way, I won't even rewrite it. I take it as a sign that what ever I said is probably something I shouldn't be writing about. If it was, then I would have taken the time to do my copy paste routine to get it correct. Since I didn't take that time, God must be telling me to stop what I'm doing. The post was going to be in my Christ category, so I could be lead to believe that whatever I was writing is probably something I shouldn't be sharing. I'm probably putting this on God and He's going “Uhm I didn't make that happen, .Text did. I know you hate rewriting it but it's happened 1000 times before and no, those weren't signs because I don't use .Text to prove a point, I have something better”. It just seems weird that it happens when I write borderline topics that I probably shouldn't be sharing or at least I shouldn't be sharing it in that tone. The post probably was out of line but I don't publish everything at first so there's probably no real 'sign' that I shouldn't be writing it.
Maybe this is just .Texts way of saying “Keep it simple, stupid, yeah I'm talking about you. Yeah you wonder why it logs you out, it's because you're taking way too long and writing way too damn much. Please stop, your readers are having a hard time keeping up”.