I don’t know what the heck yous all did that has the servers and their caches and whatever else quadruple effed up this past couple weeks, and frankly I don’t give one short-and-curly on a rats scrotum what it is either. What I do care about is the combined 25-30ish hours worth of my time spent working on 3 separate projects that your jawn has gobbled up and shat back out over the past two weeks. Between stuff freezing like “Winter has come” just as I’m putting finishing touches on a project or long format PM; the whole gorram site taking a shit because your server timed out and decided to stop serving me for 20 minutes; or most recently my saving something, seeing the telltale screen flash, double checking to make sure it’s all still there and there were no warnings that something got missed and still giving into my OCD which compelled me to save it 3 time just in case considering the higher than normal level of fubar around here lately. Yet, after my shower, when I went back to resume it turned out nothing had saved whatsoever so the thing I had been doing for over 5 hours this morning( from approx 7ish this morning until after noon:thirty) had simply vanished. Those are three separate projects that I did, but are not done and so I will have to do them all over again from scratch. You want to know what one of the two* things in this world that pisses me off the most? Having to do the same crap multiple times for no legitimate reason and through no fault of my own. If it’s my fault I’m just as pissed but at least then I would deserve having to repeat my work.
Yup, all combined more than a full day of my time has been stolen from me. From another perspective it’s the same as if DDB will have caused me to die 25-30 hours earlier than I otherwise would have, except instead of stealing one of the EoL days full of senility and incontinence, nope your system malfunctions have stolen one of the good ones out the middle.
To put that into financial context for you, I’ll cut you a break and take my guaranteed minimum compensation divided by maximum time required from my one job (so the lowest possible value for my time there), and I’ll average it with my (muuccch lower) hourly rate at my other job, resulting in an average monetarily valued of $49.15(USD) for an hour of my life.** And what’s more, since I wasn’t specifically tracking my time I’ll go with the low end 25 lost hours of my life. (I know it was at least that much all combined.) That means whatever yous all recently did (or are currently doing) that has since caused things to go extra pear shaped around here lately has cost me (at minimum) an average monetary value of at least $1,228.75 worth of my life over the past 14 days. I don’t mind paying for my subscriptions and purchases as long as it doesn’t cost me four times that amount in lost time.
If this keeps up, I’ma have to bill ya.
Footnotes
*The other is “passive drivers.” As a driver you are the guidance system for a 2,000-4,000 pound self propelled battering ram capable of speeds in excess of 100mph (160kph). Do not just get in whichever lane you feel like and zone out until your destination. That is what causes many traffic accidents and excessive commute times. Make roads safer and spend less time in traffic by keeping your head on a swivel and using the appropriate lanes for their designated purposes. Stay in the right lane and only merge left when actively passing other vehicles, and then get yo ass the heck back in the right lane!! (Vice versa in countries with right-hand drive).
**I am 1099ed with two employers to perform very involved, very invasive job that requires highly specialized training and a willingness to work under conditions that are quite literally some people’s absolute worst nightmare. You know, the one about having to stand up completely naked in front of a roomful of people and give a speech? Yup, that’s my actual job, only instead of just a speech, it’s interactive. In addition, I have to be able to make sure that the experience is not uncomfortable for the learners who are in the position of having bucketloads of highly detailed information being poured into their heads by a naked stranger who then assesses them on how well they learned. And I have to do it all in two hours or less because there’s a switch because they need to go do it again with an instructor of the opposite anatomical sex. I also need to do it all over again, only this time with a group that just had bucketsfull of information poured into them by one of my female colleagues so I gotta cram it all into an already full tank. For the other job I am a W2ed employee doing a similar job, only no nudity and the “hard parts” of what I teach there are the “easy parts” for the first job. Therefore they don’t have to pay me as much for my time as it requires less expertise, the conditions are less stressful and not gender specific.
When one pays a company to use it system for the “convenience” it supposedly provides, one expects to enjoy that convenience.
Recently that system suddenly and inexplicably grew some highly conspicuous and particularly inconvenient faults. At that point the system started to be less than convenient. When the system ate an entire project mere moments before completion. A very long, and involved project for the benefit of another user and friendly forum wonk. One ate one’s loss of almost 5 hours work citing the first realistic principles (💩 happens), and determined to start over after a brief period necessary for one’s frustration to diminish. During one’s regular rounds through the forums offering assistance or answers to community members in need, one noticed others who had begun posting complaints of similar experiences. To those one offers condolences or commiseration. One even delivered a message of patience and understanding.*
Those novel faults not only persisted, but quickly worsened and evolved into active inconveniences. Within days the offending system ate yet another of one’s projects that had also taken several hours work. That made two instances within a week’s span. The injury caused by the second loss carried added insult due to the nature of that particular project.** At that point, maintaining any attitude that could even remotely count as “non hostile”became more challenging. Yet one (literally) gritted one’s teeth*** and continued practicing one’s message of patience and understanding.
By the following week, one had finally developed the energy and renewed motivation for a second attempt at that first project one lost, although on an abridged scale. The aforementioned system faults apparently enjoyed the taste of that project the first time, as the system processed to consume the subsequent iteration as well. That made three entire projects in less than ten days. One allowed even this third strike to go by and yet did not call out the company providing the service. The message of p&u looked hollow on one’s own screen at that point, so one stopped delivering it. That was until one’s hopes were buoyed by some recent Mod activity one had noticed.
One might have switched to drafting in a word processor and then copying ones work and pasting it into this system. One has attempted such in the past and found the results less than satisfactory. Some embedded bits of code from the word processor had also ported and thrown the formatting. As one is typically fond of using various formatting elements, overcoming that challenge was more time consuming than it would otherwise have been. The time required to dig through all of the lines of code governing those various elements to find the few lines which had caused the issues seemed to be mor additional squeezing one had to do than one considered “cost” effective than the perceived benefits at that time. As such, one was quite pleased to receive the epiphany which one had received only a few days ago. One had remembered the existence of a location other than homebrew**** where one could save a draft without posting anything. One could use an unsent PM saved as a draft. And one did when one started yet another project for the benefit of another member of one’s community.
One was sorely disappointed to discover that among this systems systems shortcomings is an absolute refusal to retain anything added, edited, or removed after an initial draft of a PM is saved. That discovery marked the fourth loss of significant amounts of time one had invested resulting in major setbacks across three separate, large projects, all of them occurring during the past two weeks.
One is not “broken,” the system is.
One would also like to point out that as part of one’s action plan, a form of crisis management one might employ is a new technique designed to help manage ones anger. By forcing oneself to focus on strict use of formal non first-person language and consistent tense Andover can prevent one’s language from devolving into a barely semi-coherent nebula of vitriol loosely held together by a cable of obscenities. An added benefit is that it also helps me maintain a volume only a few decibels above one’s normal speaking voice. One expects a mixed reaction from one’s dentist.*** This technique also forces one to slow one’s responses to the offending stimulus, instead of allowing one’s immediate reaction to escalate an already charged situation. For example, one’s first reaction to your post was umbrage at your apparent glee at my misfortune. As one is also possessed of an overdeveloped sense of Schadenfreude, from an intellectual standpoint one understands. However, from an emotional standpoint it has taken one the length of time required to compose this post simply to overcome one’s immediate reaction.
Footnotes:
*As patience is not a virtue one possesses in any abundance, great or otherwise, one uses such opportunities to deliver the message as much to oneself as to others.
**That nature being a gift for some folks who have been patiently waiting for DDB to implement something that customarily would have gone live the first Monday following an intermittent event, one that most recently occurred on April 14th. As one mentioned, the people have been very patient. One gains nothing from the project other than whatever one might learn from the experience, and the satisfaction of helping others in one’s comunity. This comunity.
***One has a habit of doing that as a coping technique to prevent one from acting out ones anger. One has learned one cannot shout when one’s teeth are grinding. One‘s Dentist recommends finding an alternative solution every time he charges one to repair the damage caused by that practice. (An expense not calculated into ones original estimated losses from this experience.)
****One does not relish the idea of having to further clutter one’e homebrew creations with something that would exist solely for its SAVE] button.
So what actually broke. I've read both of your posts and I fail to understand what is actually broken. Both of these posts go off on some WILD tangents that have no bearing on the actual problems. It makes understanding what said problem is impossible.
Sposta spends a lot of time using the homebrew system. He's very active in that subforum and in responding to bug reports or questions in the general subforum regarding homebrew. Often it feels like he responds there more frequently than staff. One of the example he's talking about above is the latest UA, which it took about a month for staff to actually publish, quite a change from the norm. Staff provided pretty much no explanation on this site as to the delay (there may have been some very brief mention in the dev updates, but transcriptions for the dev updates have not been made available here in the time since the UA came out) and Sposta was one of several people doing basically free customer support when people asked about the status of the UA. Sposta also has been making homebrew versions of that UA, as much as possible within the current system. This has no doubt been tricky, even with their extensive knowledge of the system, or surely the UA would have been published. And Sposta has said, here and in many of their responses to other users, that they're very careful to save repeatedly at every step of the process.
And, basically, lately, all that advice has gone to shit. Saving doesn't help, or actively looks like it has saved, but you come back later and it's all gone. Note recent posts in other threads or subforums where people are asking how long you have to wait for the homebrew cache to catch up. In one, Sposta was saying that they usually had cache wait times up to 20 minutes, and other people were reporting the cache taking over an hour to catch up. And apparently somewhere on the back end, 20 minutes is no longer the case for them either, but the system is not making it obvious, and with the amount of time put in at one stretch (multiple hours) and the regularity of saving throughout (multiple times at multiple levels), it doesn't make sense and is generally disheartening because Sposta has put in so much time and effort to the work and to reassuring other users that the site and the devs are doing their best, and their own good will bit them in the ass.
If I knew what actually broke I would have been able to be more specific.
As states, at one point I was finishing something up and all of a sudden the entire site was frozen. I know it wasn’t on my end because my browser was working. Other sites were working, but DDB was frozen solid. There was nothing to do but close the tab and loose ev-er-ry-thing….
AritificeMeal- One of the things it ate was over 5 & 1/2 hours spent working on that Mimic review for you. That’s why I still haven’t finished it yet.
Edit: Thank you pocketmouce. Yes, these glitches are the reason I hadn’t finished either the Chromatic nor Metallic ones yet.
I feel you. I would've posted about the issue after the first instance of losing more than 30 minutes' worth of work, you've got much more patience than me.
I used to use browser extensions like Lazarus for forum post recovery, but it doesn't seem like its been a thing for a few years now... Looks like Typio might be similar to what I remember though?
I feel you. I would've posted about the issue after the first instance of losing more than 30 minutes' worth of work, you've got much more patience than me.
Well, like I said, 💩 happens. After all, like the man said, “If every day is a sunny day, then wtf is a sunny day?” And usually whenever things go this wonky around here it means updates are afoot. But this time that foot kicked me square in the dangly bits. (And I’m a little messed up so once in a while I don’t necessarily mind so much.) But apparently being 💩 on four times is my Popeye point. (That’s all I can stands and I can’t stands no more.)
I'm not gonna lie, Sposta, I was wondering when you were gonna say this publically.
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Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
I'm not gonna lie, Sposta, I was wondering when you were gonna say this publically.
Well, since you’re here….
The aforementioned 1st (& 3rd) project that got eaten was for them.👆
In fact, not a single one of those gorram projects was for myself or any of my players. All of them were for others, either DevanAvalon, ArtificeMeal, or the folks over waiting for that UA that pocketmouse mentioned. (Talk about not going unpunished for good dead’s. 🙄)
Actually. An idea has occurred to me regarding whatever the heck DDB changesld that’s been causing the headaches ‘round here. I wonder if they shifted some stuff from caching on the server side to caching on the client side for some reason and that’s what’s caused these problems….
That fourth project got a second attempt earlier today which also went the way of its ancestor. Luckily it was very early on (and my herbal medication has been keeping me relatively mellow today). However, attempts 3 pt 1, and 3 pt 2 went off without any further incident. So that’s 1 down. And DDB released that UA, so that’s 2 off my list.
DA, your next, but I do have a campaign to DM, projects for my group (whether the campaign I am DMing or our alt. campaign for weeks when the main doesn’t run for whichever reason). So unfortunately, even though you’ve been waiting the longest, and asked me way before anyone else, you still gotta gimme a little bit. (Sorry.) But, I promise you that you will get the most thorough analysis I can for your project, it just won’t have all the bells & whistles.
You really shouldn’t need all the proofs anyway, they were more just me “showing my work.” And the jokes and witty bits were me trying to keep it peppy to keep you awake through the sociology (real and imagined) and math sections containing those proofs that provide the foundational reasoning for my final analysis and proposal. So if you just take my word on stuff for the first two parts then I don’t need the proofs. And if I don’t need the proofs then I also won’t need the citations or links, and you won’t need the entertaining bits sprinkled throughout.
That’ll let me get to the analysis and proposal section more quickly. That’s the part you’re either gonna love or hate me for depending on how you feel about the current scope and scale of your project, and the conceptual layout and direction. I think you’re going to like it, I think you’re gonna…. (You’ll see.)
I spent 3 days and probably a combined 5-6 hours writing an in-depth and lengthy post for a new thread. About 10 minutes ago, I hit "Post", and the whole post was lost.
To say the least, I was not pleased with this outcome, as I had just lost over 1,000 words for a post I felt deserved the amount of time and attention I gave it (which is extremely difficult for someone with ADHD, like me, to motivate themselves to do).
I lost it. All of it. I am holding myself back from screaming because I know it would be counterproductive and futile. This has never happened to me before, so I'm being as understanding as I can. This is a new problem, and I would very much appreciate if it were to be fixed as soon as physically possible. I gave an example of a possible way to fix this in this thread (saving posts even if the tab is reloaded).
So, please, fix whatever is causing this issue. I enjoy using this site, but I know my enjoyment of it will steadily decrease if I can expect behavior like this from the site in the future.
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I have been experiencing the exact same thing. I don't spend nearly as much time here as some people, so all of the things have been minor annoyances at best.
I wish I was technical enough to suggest why it was happening or how to stop it, but my only advice is to do what I have been doing for the last three weeks: Write everything in google docs and then copy paste it into DnD beyond. That way you have a backup for everything you have written.
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I don’t know what the heck yous all did that has the servers and their caches and whatever else quadruple effed up this past couple weeks, and frankly I don’t give one short-and-curly on a rats scrotum what it is either. What I do care about is the combined 25-30ish hours worth of my time spent working on 3 separate projects that your jawn has gobbled up and shat back out over the past two weeks. Between stuff freezing like “Winter has come” just as I’m putting finishing touches on a project or long format PM; the whole gorram site taking a shit because your server timed out and decided to stop serving me for 20 minutes; or most recently my saving something, seeing the telltale screen flash, double checking to make sure it’s all still there and there were no warnings that something got missed and still giving into my OCD which compelled me to save it 3 time just in case considering the higher than normal level of fubar around here lately. Yet, after my shower, when I went back to resume it turned out nothing had saved whatsoever so the thing I had been doing for over 5 hours this morning( from approx 7ish this morning until after noon:thirty) had simply vanished. Those are three separate projects that I did, but are not done and so I will have to do them all over again from scratch. You want to know what one of the two* things in this world that pisses me off the most? Having to do the same crap multiple times for no legitimate reason and through no fault of my own. If it’s my fault I’m just as pissed but at least then I would deserve having to repeat my work.
Yup, all combined more than a full day of my time has been stolen from me. From another perspective it’s the same as if DDB will have caused me to die 25-30 hours earlier than I otherwise would have, except instead of stealing one of the EoL days full of senility and incontinence, nope your system malfunctions have stolen one of the good ones out the middle.
To put that into financial context for you, I’ll cut you a break and take my guaranteed minimum compensation divided by maximum time required from my one job (so the lowest possible value for my time there), and I’ll average it with my (muuccch lower) hourly rate at my other job, resulting in an average monetarily valued of $49.15(USD) for an hour of my life.** And what’s more, since I wasn’t specifically tracking my time I’ll go with the low end 25 lost hours of my life. (I know it was at least that much all combined.) That means whatever yous all recently did (or are currently doing) that has since caused things to go extra pear shaped around here lately has cost me (at minimum) an average monetary value of at least $1,228.75 worth of my life over the past 14 days. I don’t mind paying for my subscriptions and purchases as long as it doesn’t cost me four times that amount in lost time.
If this keeps up, I’ma have to bill ya.
Footnotes
*The other is “passive drivers.” As a driver you are the guidance system for a 2,000-4,000 pound self propelled battering ram capable of speeds in excess of 100mph (160kph). Do not just get in whichever lane you feel like and zone out until your destination. That is what causes many traffic accidents and excessive commute times. Make roads safer and spend less time in traffic by keeping your head on a swivel and using the appropriate lanes for their designated purposes. Stay in the right lane and only merge left when actively passing other vehicles, and then get yo ass the heck back in the right lane!! (Vice versa in countries with right-hand drive).
**I am 1099ed with two employers to perform very involved, very invasive job that requires highly specialized training and a willingness to work under conditions that are quite literally some people’s absolute worst nightmare. You know, the one about having to stand up completely naked in front of a roomful of people and give a speech? Yup, that’s my actual job, only instead of just a speech, it’s interactive. In addition, I have to be able to make sure that the experience is not uncomfortable for the learners who are in the position of having bucketloads of highly detailed information being poured into their heads by a naked stranger who then assesses them on how well they learned. And I have to do it all in two hours or less because there’s a switch because they need to go do it again with an instructor of the opposite anatomical sex. I also need to do it all over again, only this time with a group that just had bucketsfull of information poured into them by one of my female colleagues so I gotta cram it all into an already full tank. For the other job I am a W2ed employee doing a similar job, only no nudity and the “hard parts” of what I teach there are the “easy parts” for the first job. Therefore they don’t have to pay me as much for my time as it requires less expertise, the conditions are less stressful and not gender specific.
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OMG They Broke The Sposta!!! D:
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When one pays a company to use it system for the “convenience” it supposedly provides, one expects to enjoy that convenience.
Recently that system suddenly and inexplicably grew some highly conspicuous and particularly inconvenient faults. At that point the system started to be less than convenient. When the system ate an entire project mere moments before completion. A very long, and involved project for the benefit of another user and friendly forum wonk. One ate one’s loss of almost 5 hours work citing the first realistic principles (💩 happens), and determined to start over after a brief period necessary for one’s frustration to diminish. During one’s regular rounds through the forums offering assistance or answers to community members in need, one noticed others who had begun posting complaints of similar experiences. To those one offers condolences or commiseration. One even delivered a message of patience and understanding.*
Those novel faults not only persisted, but quickly worsened and evolved into active inconveniences. Within days the offending system ate yet another of one’s projects that had also taken several hours work. That made two instances within a week’s span. The injury caused by the second loss carried added insult due to the nature of that particular project.** At that point, maintaining any attitude that could even remotely count as “non hostile”became more challenging. Yet one (literally) gritted one’s teeth*** and continued practicing one’s message of patience and understanding.
By the following week, one had finally developed the energy and renewed motivation for a second attempt at that first project one lost, although on an abridged scale. The aforementioned system faults apparently enjoyed the taste of that project the first time, as the system processed to consume the subsequent iteration as well. That made three entire projects in less than ten days. One allowed even this third strike to go by and yet did not call out the company providing the service. The message of p&u looked hollow on one’s own screen at that point, so one stopped delivering it. That was until one’s hopes were buoyed by some recent Mod activity one had noticed.
One might have switched to drafting in a word processor and then copying ones work and pasting it into this system. One has attempted such in the past and found the results less than satisfactory. Some embedded bits of code from the word processor had also ported and thrown the formatting. As one is typically fond of using various formatting elements, overcoming that challenge was more time consuming than it would otherwise have been. The time required to dig through all of the lines of code governing those various elements to find the few lines which had caused the issues seemed to be mor additional squeezing one had to do than one considered “cost” effective than the perceived benefits at that time. As such, one was quite pleased to receive the epiphany which one had received only a few days ago. One had remembered the existence of a location other than homebrew**** where one could save a draft without posting anything. One could use an unsent PM saved as a draft. And one did when one started yet another project for the benefit of another member of one’s community.
One was sorely disappointed to discover that among this systems systems shortcomings is an absolute refusal to retain anything added, edited, or removed after an initial draft of a PM is saved. That discovery marked the fourth loss of significant amounts of time one had invested resulting in major setbacks across three separate, large projects, all of them occurring during the past two weeks.
One is not “broken,” the system is.
One would also like to point out that as part of one’s action plan, a form of crisis management one might employ is a new technique designed to help manage ones anger. By forcing oneself to focus on strict use of formal non first-person language and consistent tense Andover can prevent one’s language from devolving into a barely semi-coherent nebula of vitriol loosely held together by a cable of obscenities. An added benefit is that it also helps me maintain a volume only a few decibels above one’s normal speaking voice. One expects a mixed reaction from one’s dentist.***
This technique also forces one to slow one’s responses to the offending stimulus, instead of allowing one’s immediate reaction to escalate an already charged situation.
For example, one’s first reaction to your post was umbrage at your apparent glee at my misfortune. As one is also possessed of an overdeveloped sense of Schadenfreude, from an intellectual standpoint one understands. However, from an emotional standpoint it has taken one the length of time required to compose this post simply to overcome one’s immediate reaction.
Footnotes:
*As patience is not a virtue one possesses in any abundance, great or otherwise, one uses such opportunities to deliver the message as much to oneself as to others.
**That nature being a gift for some folks who have been patiently waiting for DDB to implement something that customarily would have gone live the first Monday following an intermittent event, one that most recently occurred on April 14th. As one mentioned, the people have been very patient. One gains nothing from the project other than whatever one might learn from the experience, and the satisfaction of helping others in one’s comunity. This comunity.
***One has a habit of doing that as a coping technique to prevent one from acting out ones anger. One has learned one cannot shout when one’s teeth are grinding. One‘s Dentist recommends finding an alternative solution every time he charges one to repair the damage caused by that practice. (An expense not calculated into ones original estimated losses from this experience.)
****One does not relish the idea of having to further clutter one’e homebrew creations with something that would exist solely for its SAVE] button.
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So what actually broke. I've read both of your posts and I fail to understand what is actually broken. Both of these posts go off on some WILD tangents that have no bearing on the actual problems. It makes understanding what said problem is impossible.
this feels less like a bug report and more like an angry rant about life in general....
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
Sposta spends a lot of time using the homebrew system. He's very active in that subforum and in responding to bug reports or questions in the general subforum regarding homebrew. Often it feels like he responds there more frequently than staff. One of the example he's talking about above is the latest UA, which it took about a month for staff to actually publish, quite a change from the norm. Staff provided pretty much no explanation on this site as to the delay (there may have been some very brief mention in the dev updates, but transcriptions for the dev updates have not been made available here in the time since the UA came out) and Sposta was one of several people doing basically free customer support when people asked about the status of the UA. Sposta also has been making homebrew versions of that UA, as much as possible within the current system. This has no doubt been tricky, even with their extensive knowledge of the system, or surely the UA would have been published. And Sposta has said, here and in many of their responses to other users, that they're very careful to save repeatedly at every step of the process.
And, basically, lately, all that advice has gone to shit. Saving doesn't help, or actively looks like it has saved, but you come back later and it's all gone. Note recent posts in other threads or subforums where people are asking how long you have to wait for the homebrew cache to catch up. In one, Sposta was saying that they usually had cache wait times up to 20 minutes, and other people were reporting the cache taking over an hour to catch up. And apparently somewhere on the back end, 20 minutes is no longer the case for them either, but the system is not making it obvious, and with the amount of time put in at one stretch (multiple hours) and the regularity of saving throughout (multiple times at multiple levels), it doesn't make sense and is generally disheartening because Sposta has put in so much time and effort to the work and to reassuring other users that the site and the devs are doing their best, and their own good will bit them in the ass.
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When Sposta is this upset about something, I know it's bad. I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings by saying you'd "broke" :(
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I know. That’s why I took the time to not blow my cork at you.
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If I knew what actually broke I would have been able to be more specific.
As states, at one point I was finishing something up and all of a sudden the entire site was frozen. I know it wasn’t on my end because my browser was working. Other sites were working, but DDB was frozen solid. There was nothing to do but close the tab and loose ev-er-ry-thing….
AritificeMeal- One of the things it ate was over 5 & 1/2 hours spent working on that Mimic review for you. That’s why I still haven’t finished it yet.
Edit: Thank you pocketmouce. Yes, these glitches are the reason I hadn’t finished either the Chromatic nor Metallic ones yet.
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I feel you. I would've posted about the issue after the first instance of losing more than 30 minutes' worth of work, you've got much more patience than me.
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I used to use browser extensions like Lazarus for forum post recovery, but it doesn't seem like its been a thing for a few years now... Looks like Typio might be similar to what I remember though?
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I'm going to make this way harder than it needs to be.
Well, like I said, 💩 happens. After all, like the man said, “If every day is a sunny day, then wtf is a sunny day?” And usually whenever things go this wonky around here it means updates are afoot. But this time that foot kicked me square in the dangly bits. (And I’m a little messed up so once in a while I don’t necessarily mind so much.) But apparently being 💩 on four times is my Popeye point. (That’s all I can stands and I can’t stands no more.)
(Sorry for the mixed metaphors.)
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I'm not gonna lie, Sposta, I was wondering when you were gonna say this publically.
Formerly Devan Avalon.
Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
Well, since you’re here….
The aforementioned 1st (& 3rd) project that got eaten was for them.👆
In fact, not a single one of those gorram projects was for myself or any of my players. All of them were for others, either DevanAvalon, ArtificeMeal, or the folks over waiting for that UA that pocketmouse mentioned. (Talk about not going unpunished for good dead’s. 🙄)
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Actually. An idea has occurred to me regarding whatever the heck DDB changesld that’s been causing the headaches ‘round here. I wonder if they shifted some stuff from caching on the server side to caching on the client side for some reason and that’s what’s caused these problems….
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Okay, update:
That fourth project got a second attempt earlier today which also went the way of its ancestor. Luckily it was very early on (and my herbal medication has been keeping me relatively mellow today). However, attempts 3 pt 1, and 3 pt 2 went off without any further incident. So that’s 1 down. And DDB released that UA, so that’s 2 off my list.
DA, your next, but I do have a campaign to DM, projects for my group (whether the campaign I am DMing or our alt. campaign for weeks when the main doesn’t run for whichever reason). So unfortunately, even though you’ve been waiting the longest, and asked me way before anyone else, you still gotta gimme a little bit. (Sorry.) But, I promise you that you will get the most thorough analysis I can for your project, it just won’t have all the bells & whistles.
You really shouldn’t need all the proofs anyway, they were more just me “showing my work.” And the jokes and witty bits were me trying to keep it peppy to keep you awake through the sociology (real and imagined) and math sections containing those proofs that provide the foundational reasoning for my final analysis and proposal. So if you just take my word on stuff for the first two parts then I don’t need the proofs. And if I don’t need the proofs then I also won’t need the citations or links, and you won’t need the entertaining bits sprinkled throughout.
That’ll let me get to the analysis and proposal section more quickly. That’s the part you’re either gonna love or hate me for depending on how you feel about the current scope and scale of your project, and the conceptual layout and direction. I think you’re going to like it, I think you’re gonna…. (You’ll see.)
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I would like to boost this thread. I lost a subclass I spent 1 month on to dndbeyond crashing.
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I'm going to also throw in my experience here.
I spent 3 days and probably a combined 5-6 hours writing an in-depth and lengthy post for a new thread. About 10 minutes ago, I hit "Post", and the whole post was lost.
To say the least, I was not pleased with this outcome, as I had just lost over 1,000 words for a post I felt deserved the amount of time and attention I gave it (which is extremely difficult for someone with ADHD, like me, to motivate themselves to do).
I lost it. All of it. I am holding myself back from screaming because I know it would be counterproductive and futile. This has never happened to me before, so I'm being as understanding as I can. This is a new problem, and I would very much appreciate if it were to be fixed as soon as physically possible. I gave an example of a possible way to fix this in this thread (saving posts even if the tab is reloaded).
So, please, fix whatever is causing this issue. I enjoy using this site, but I know my enjoyment of it will steadily decrease if I can expect behavior like this from the site in the future.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
I have been experiencing the exact same thing. I don't spend nearly as much time here as some people, so all of the things have been minor annoyances at best.
I wish I was technical enough to suggest why it was happening or how to stop it, but my only advice is to do what I have been doing for the last three weeks: Write everything in google docs and then copy paste it into DnD beyond. That way you have a backup for everything you have written.
“I will take responsibility for what I have done. [...] If must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer.