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Just wrote an exceptionally long issue in Github and as I was finishing it, my finger grazed what I believe to be the "escape" key and it just disappeared. Totally gone. No "are you sure?" box like normal. No recovery. Opening an issue did not restore it
Wha :(
Did I just get transported back to Netscape 4
@mcc a lot of modals will do this to me if I have the gall to drag the mouse outside of the modal box while selecting text, infuriating!
@mcc that sucks its so annoying when it happens
@mcc If only you could be so lucky.
@mcc Yeah, it's really bad. I always go to the full-page issue compose UI rather than the pop-up one they're trying to get us to use now, precisely because the pop-up one is unsafe like that,
@dalias I do this literally every time I remember, literally for this reason, but this time I forgot
(I also refuse to use Mastodon 5 for the same reason. According to Mastodon devs Mastodon 5 doesn't even have this problem. But due to Github, I have trauma)
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@mcc I'm so traumatized by previous experiences of losing long posts in Web forms that I tend to regularly copy the text to the clipboard when writing in a form, especially before hitting "Send".