I posted a response to Imagine This' thread between 1330 AND 1400 GMT today but it has disappeared .

Edited April 9Apr 9 by studiot

I'm not familiar with the thread, and can't find it with a Search for "Imagine This".

edit: I belatedly saw the possessive apostrophe and figured out you mean a member, probably Imagine Everything? Not sure what happened, your history shows the post before this one was made last Saturday, in Today I Learned.

12 minutes ago, Phi for All said:

I'm not familiar with the thread, and can't find it with a Search for "Imagine This".

edit: I belatedly saw the possessive apostrophe and figured out you mean a member, probably Imagine Everything? Not sure what happened, your history shows the post before this one was made last Saturday, in Today I Learned.

Thank you for looking into it.

This is the thread

My reply is particularly memorable since this was the first time ever that the new host/software allowed me to select a short passage to quote.

ie the select quote function actually worked.

I spent somnething like half an hour composing the text, then was called away.

Needless to say I was logged out when I returned, but my text was recoverable in the usual fashion after logging back in.

I added a few more words, uploaded the sketches and pasted them into the reply text, where I watched them appear.

I watched the reply appear in the thread upon submission.

When I returned a few hours later there was no evidence of my post, so I tried to recover it again in the input box, but it did not reappear there either.

9 hours ago, studiot said:

My reply is particularly memorable since this was the first time ever that the new host/software allowed me to select a short passage to quote.

I used to have this problem too, until I recently changed phones (the old one died after ~10 years), and thus upgraded to new versions of both OS and browser. Now the issue is gone completely. Looks like this is a local problem, not server-side.

On 4/10/2026 at 4:33 AM, Markus Hanke said:

I used to have this problem too, until I recently changed phones (the old one died after ~10 years), and thus upgraded to new versions of both OS and browser. Now the issue is gone completely. Looks like this is a local problem, not server-side.

Thank you Markus but I don't have a smartphone.

However a second issue has arisen.

As I can often only access the site intermittently I often used to compose longer posts a bit at a time (but not actually post them until I was ready) and use the memory function in the input editor to restore what I had already done.
This has worked well for years, even into the new host era.

But suddenly over the last few days I find that when I log on again it is all gone.

As has happened with a particularly complicated post I am trying to do in the liquid fracture thread.

Part of the trouble is that the system is logging me out in the middle of typing into the box.

If I am logged in and typing why is the system able to log me out ?

Since I first started the mechanics of the system here has become steadily more and more user unfriendly, whilst the people have remained constantly friendly.