I was writing a post in the Christmas Card Offer Tag when I suddenly was getting popups telling me that my draft was edited in another window. Yes, I did have a window open, showing the new topics, but I was NOT at all editing my post in that window. My post was only open in one window. Then I did click “Reply” to post my reply. (But the I was told that my message was to simalar to the previous message I had posted. So then the message was still available as a draft, while it mysteriously had been posted.)
Then I closed one open forum window, so I only had one forum window open. And then I wrote a message to the person I had tagged. And I was told that my draft was edited in another window. How could it possibly be edited in another window when I didn’t have the forum open in another window?
This has happened to me too a couple of times, but I never managed to reproduce on demand, so it’s hard to report and get a fix. Luckily, it seems quite rare.
If someone manages to consistently reproduce this, we can try to report to Discourse.
Until then, if someone happens to bump into this as well, please report it here, even if you can’t reproduce it: it helps us understand how common it is.
I meant at the moment it triggered. I understand closing the window doesn’t solve it: understanding what triggered it in the first place might help us report it if (ideally) we are able to reproduce it on demand.
It has happened to me again a few (3-4?) times over the last weeks. I had the forum open in one tab only. And yet I was told the draft was edited in another window.
(As I’m writing this message, I got a bookmark pop-up out of the blue…)
I have that OFTEN …
I don’t Post every day. But a few Times a Week. A few or more Posts. I have it a few times that day.
Example a few days ago. I think I Had posted 14x and it happened maybe 5 Times.
Sometimes The Message i typed is gone - No matter If i Press reload or ignore.
Also the Other: abandon or Not abandan (or Something Like that)
As i Type slow it’s very annoying…
I got this message now and I think I know why it happened in my case.
I was typing a reply to a post and usually there is a tick mark shown when you pause so that the message is saved but this time there was a circular progress bar that just went on endlessly and then I got a popup saying ‘Draft is being edited in another window’.
This sounds like something may be blocking the (background updates of the) forum. Which browser are you using? Are you running an ad blocker or privacy extension/addon that may be interfering with connections to community.postcrossing.com?
I’m using Chrome 89.0.4389.82. I use uBlock Origin and it was turned on for this site. I’ve turned it off now and I’ll update this post if I see the issue again.
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