This was going to be a post about HBP and AQATDR, But LJ ate it

[inverarity]

Seriously. WTF? The Whole. Damn. Post. disappeared when I switched from Rich Text to HTML view, and neither Undo nor Paste nor the back-button would retrieve it.

Arrgh.

(Anyone inclined to tell me, in that smug like-you've-never-done-the-same-thing-before tone, "You should have written it in a text editor and then copy & pasted it into LJ," can bite me.)

Okay, the (much) shorter version: I liked the HBP movie, though not all of it, and AQATDR is still coming along slowly but steadily. (And I really wasn't planning to be such a tease about the title, but the guesses are entertaining. And no, none of them are correct. ;) )

Maybe I'll try recreating my post after I am no longer in a mood to shot-put my laptop.

Comments

[ebilgatoloco.livejournal.com]

LOL! I've learned my lesson from LJ eating so many of my posts. I copy them before checking over on HTML view. I don't do the text editor shit.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Alexandra Quick and the Dark River. Why not?

As for losing one whole damned article on LJ, join the club. My suspicion is that what happens is that, as I typed, my fingers hit the highlight, home and backspace keys - by mistake and in quick succession. Voila. Whole block of text right from the beginning deleted beyond return, since LJ has no "undo" key. In a more benign, but still infuriating, situation, you might lose a line.

[hermoinejean7.livejournal.com]

Join the club. LJ post disappearances, to me, are synonymous with LJ Cuts. LJ happens to assume that the 'LJ cut' button is a signal to mutate into an evil post-eating monster. >.> Uh-huh.

But using a text-editor to post LJ posts? Ew. Seriously, just ew.

And the title mystery still continues, eh? I am curious. Very curious. Um. When do we get to know it?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_silverfox/]

(Anyone inclined to tell me, in that smug like-you've-never-done-the-same-thing-before tone, "You should have written it in a text editor and then copy & pasted it into LJ," can bite me.)
Yeah, I decide to do that everytime LJ eats one of my posts and then nothing goes wrong for ages and I stop bothering until the next time LJ feels hungry ...

[methylethyldeth.livejournal.com]

I'll guess "Alexandra Quick and the Dainty Ruffles."

*chuckles*