All sorted @edgescape

No, it's not just you @edgescape - it happened to me last night also. Seems every time I save my posts into a Word document before saving here, the saving here works, but whenever I forget to do that or get overconfident, I get the blank screen or the home screen without the saving icon, or the saving icon keeps spinning and never stops. I thought it might be my browser because whenever I use CCleaner to clean my cache and free up memory it seems to fix the issue for a while, but it seems to happen fairly randomly.

I also just got a new cordless mouse and it has side buttons that I'm not used to and the one on the left side (not on the top left, but on the actual side of the mouse) takes you back to the previous screen, as if you clicked on the back arrow at the top left corner of the browser screen - and occasionally I squeeze that button in error when moving the mouse, which is certainly a "Grrrr!" moment - I'll get my son to disable that button over the weekend - I could Google how to do it but he already knows so that will be quicker.

At least I have Win 11 working now and I can use MS Paint - although it has less functions than the legacy "3D Paint" - for instance I used to be able to rotate arrows or text or anything I wanted to any angle, but not with the "new" MS Paint. Arrows are up, down, left or right, that's it. You can flip stuff 180 degrees or rotate it 90 degrees, but nothing inbetween. First World problems, eh!

I do find that the chances of this site not saving a post seems to correlate fairly closely to the length of time I spend writing the post, i.e. the longer I spend, the less likely it will save. There's probably a techie explanation for that, but I just try to remember that correlation to help prompt me to copy the post before I try to save it when I have spent a fair whack of time on it.

@RhinoInvestor @Bear77 @edgescape

It's happened to me too, and is super frustrating. We've had a look before, but can't see anything obvious.. but that just means we need to dig deeper.

My safety net is to ctrl-A ctrl-C (select all and copy) before I got post.

@Strawman

On a bit more thinking, assuming this is a cluster application consisting of a few server nodes with a load balancer on top, this looks like a sticky session issue where after a certain time, the browser session is redirected to another node instead of the browser session staying on the current node in the cluster.

Anyway this is an analogy I am borrowing from what I've seen in the past with other load balanced applications.

I *think* I get what you're saying @edgescape, but I'll pass it on to those that definitely do.

Appreciate the assist.

Tha ks @AUROPAL

All positions closed out at 24c

@Strawman - likwise my CSR holding in my account.

Thx

C

Done @Chagsy

Yes, I've got that also - been like that for a couple of weeks for me - using MS Edge Chromium browser on a desktop PC. Doesn't happen when I use my phone, but I hate using my phone for SM - prefer to use the PC. Not sure if its related to the browser or just to the PC version of SM?

Edit: And now it's gone. Only change was I ran CCleaner and cleaned my cache. Not sure if that made the difference or not.

yes, i've noticed it too.. Let me see what we can do. Thanks for the heads up.

Ive noticed this on safari. Not a big deal, but I have seen it happen.