Not that I'm BITTER or anything

[ralphmelton]

Friday night, I prepared a long post about all that's happened in the last two weeks, including our trip to Texas to see our relatives. LiveJournal declined to post it for me because I'd posted the short 'boustrophedonically' post while composing that essay--and when I went back to change the date, the whole post had vanished.
I'm not going to bother to re-create that post unless anyone actually asks me to.

Today (Saturday), I spent large portions of the day writing a review of the Monster's Handbook by FFG. When I hit 'Post Article', LJ said 'Bad password.' And again, the article had vanished into the ether.

I am not pleased.

(I'll try to rewrite that article, I think, because I was entertaining ideas of sending it in to d20 Weekly as a review and trying to get paid for it.)

Comments

[eub.livejournal.com]

I would like to hear about your last two weeks, but I hesitate to say so because your infuriation in reconstructing the post probably exceeds my pleasure in reading it.

(I've been forced to the habit of doing C-a C-c in the message field before I try to post, in case it gets eaten.)

[talek.livejournal.com]

Several people I know compose their posts in a separate editor (of their preferred type, usually vi or emacs) and then paste that into the web form, just to avoid these sorts of hassles (and also to have a decent editor!). I personally haven't started doing that yet, but I haven't been posting anything large, either.

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

One could also download a client--I seem to use the client for long posts and the webform for short or easily retypable ones. It more or less works out and I don't have to depend on Netscape retaining the textbox's contents as much.

[mg4h.livejournal.com]

Yes, what he said. the clients are your friend. You want to use them, really.

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

Indeed? I haven't tried the clients in many months, but when last I used them, I found them incredibly annoying in comparison to the web interface. (Though the web interface has been reaching new highs of annoyance lately.)

The worst was the Palm client as of September 2001. My word, but that was heinous. I still twitch spastically at the memory.

I think that perhaps what I want is an email-to-LJ gateway.

[cellio]

Email to LJ would be wonderful.

I use emacs for my longer posts (or, at least, the ones I know are going to be longer going in), and I use the web client for the shorter or less-important entries (where I am more risk-tolerant). I've never used any of the clients; they seem like too much trouble. I don't want to learn yet another tool; I prefer to use the tools I already have available.