Cage - sorry that happened to you. Unfortunately that's a downstream impact of how Cloudflare tries to defend the server. Cloudflare will re-validate you after a certain amount of time, and if you were in the middle of drafting a board post or private message, the draft might get lost after Cloudflare clears you. This has happened to me also, as I edit pages in the Wiki portion of the site.Old Cage wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 10:02 pm Tonight I received a question via private message here. I wrote out a thoughtful answer and tried to send it. It looks like I took too long, because I had to sign in again, proving that I was not a robot, and my message was gone.
I will write it again, and then copy it, and paste it into a new window after signing in again, and quickly hit send.
While Cloudflare is still enabled, if I'm writing something that starts to get long, I select all text and copy just before I hit post or preview. That way if Cloudflare loses the draft, the clipboard still has it.
I need to carve out some time to re-engage with my host provider's support team again. Cloudflare is not a permanent solve and shouldn't be necessary, but for now it's the band aid.