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Leonard Ritter

repeat after me: writing into a web form is like writing for a trashcan.

the server has a hiccup, your browser crashes, you accidentally hit F5, and all your work is gone. if your text input turns out to be substantial, keep a copy in a text editor.

@lritter Yup, always with important forms.

@lritter But what if my text editor is _also_ effectively a web form? 👼

(just a -slightly- more reliable one)

@pauljan i... i don't know what you're talking about, and i don't want to know.

@lritter :D Was about to paste a witty reply from my text editor but it seems to be frozen again.

@lritter I got bit by a huge web form that had a little circled ‘i’ by one of the boxes near the end. I clicked the i for the information I needed and it took me to a new page and lost the whole form.

@lritter Constant Cmd-A, Cmd-C in a webapp is the constant Cmd-S of computing in the old days

@lritter I agree, but at the same time the interesting thing about this is that google docs loses my work infinitely less often than MS word 🤔