Ran into this problem as I was trying to post in the WC2014 thread.

I usually like to preview my posts before posting, to check formatting and spelling/grammar. When I did this today, it would preview my post, but also automatically delete everything I've written in the textbox.

I took screenshots of this happening:
This is my written post, with everything as it should be.


After I press preview, the text disappeared. What's up with that?

EDIT: Should also point out that this problem didn't appear when I was creating this thread. I could preview my post normally.

 

Were you by chance refreshing another tab from the same thread? That might be your problem.

 

Even if it was the immediate cause, it shouldn't be.

I have experienced this bug as well.

 

This might not be related, but whenever I type up a long post, and someone posts in the thread before I finish, it says expired thread marker or something along those lines and I lose what I type. Something similar happens if you try to post in a thread more than 30 days old without hitting the checkbox. I haven't figured out a way around this other than copy/pasting before continuing.

 

I remember it happening forever ago to me constantly when I was using Firefox with Greasemonkey. I removed Greasemonkey and it went away, didn't see it happen again for me.

 

Similar deal is happening in the social clubs. I've gone to edit one of my posts for spelling errors and the text was blank. Canceling the edit left the message intact, but hitting go advanced instead gave me this;

The following errors occurred with your submission:

1. The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 10 characters.

Copying the text before hitting edit and then pasting it into the empty edit box, then hitting preview showed a preview just fine but ate the text in the box when I scrolled down to check it.

HOWEVER, previewing my text for this very post did NOT eat the text.

EDIT 7:39 PM EST: I just posted in the 500 Club and hit edit, the text box was just fine. I checked yesterday's entry and it too had full text in the edit box. Clicked go advanced and the text was in the post like it was supposed to be.

 

Firefox(30.0), Extensions(Adblock Plus 2.6.3, Ghostery 5.3.2, NoScript 2.6.8.33, Symantic Intrusion Prevention 12.2.0.5 -1), Greasemonkey is NOT installed. NoScript is set to allow DLP for about a year now since I first installed it.

Checked again and the 500 club is working just fine now, as is previewing this post. Hope this helps.

 

Seems I'm now having this issue. Haven't installed any new add-ons recently, so no idea what's causing it. Also happens when I try to edit a post.

Edit: Or not, because now editing works fine. maybe it's because the post I tried to edit before had been auto-merged?

 

Had it happen again about 20 minutes ago when I was posting in here. Previewed the first four quotes and it ate my text. I clicked back and posted without previewing anything else. Whatever it is isn't happening again now when I tried in this thread or in Prob's thread a minute ago :|

 

Maybe my thread is just cursed, or something?

 

Happening again right now(first in the 500 Club, second in Chasing the Outer Night in Dresden Work By Author) as I'm trying to update.

 

So, for some reason, I can't edit this post, <--- Here.

And it's just this post. Every other one I can edit fine.

It's the same one from before, and to edit it I have to boot up Chrome. I hate that browser. Almost a much as Internet Explorer.

I use Firefox, and I haven't installed or changed anything lately so I have no idea what's causing this.

 

Quoting and multi-quoting is also coming up blank. No changes to Firefox version or recent installations/removals et all.

 

This happens frequently on posts older than 30 days for me but I'm using my work's IE9 browser (With Windows 7 corporate) so take that with a grain of salt.

Also, hitting the Quote button brings up the advanced edit box, but the box is empty of any kind of quote. I literally just tried to quote the post above me and it came up with a blank box.

 

Just happened to me in this thread, and I also know what seems to cause it (at least for my post). As soon as I put the degree symbol (°) in the text, it vanishes when I hit preview post. If I remove it then it works fine. This also seems to happen everywhere, since when I just hit preview here in this thread the text vanished and as soon as I removed the symbol it worked fine.

Some system information: I'm using Firefox 31 with the addons Adblock, HTTPS-Everywhere, Ghostery, NoScript and Stylish.

Also I just tested it with Safari and Internet Explorer 11 - in Safari this doesn't happen, but in IE 11 it does.

Edit: Quoting and Editing also brings up an empty box.