This never used to happen until recently. Before a few days ago, Steemit did a great job of keeping posts in memory so that if the submission didn't go through, your writing wasn't simply lost. Apparently that has changed.
I've lost several articles now by hitting submit, waiting for a long time as it hangs, then being dumped onto my feed with no sign of my article anywhere. When I hit back, it shows me the empty text body and tag fields like when you're writing your post. All that hard work, gone.
The obvious solution would be to write my articles in a word processor so they're safe even when Steemit shits the bed. That's what I've been doing, but I don't always remember to. I also don't always remember to select all, then copy the text so it's saved in the clipboard.
On top of all this I've had significant trouble submitting posts at all recently. I had to submit one of them 11 times before it finally went through, getting either a red text error message about something or other not making a connection in time or nothing at all happening.
I've also struggled recently to even reach Steemit. I don't know if it was down for everybody or just me, but for like an hour I couldn't get the page to load in my browser. It seems like Steemit staff need to invest in more servers, more bandwidth or both.
Also whatever recent change caused Steemit to "lose" articles upon submission, it's not appreciated and I hope it will be fixed post haste. That's a rather severe problem for a site of this nature to have.
You were going to get an article about Gameboy Color scene demos and graphically sophisticated games, but you got this instead because Steemit ate all my writing. Spread the word, it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
That's all for now my dudes, stay cozy.
