URGENT!! You must fix this!!!!!
I'm here updating one of my hubs with some good stuff and everything is turning out nice. I save it and start reviewing my additions when I notice something I need to fix.
Now, I'm stuck using a mouse that has a slight hair-trigger to it and it occasionally adds a click here and now...
I click on the little edit button and, just as the box pops open for me to edit it, the hair-trigger accidentally goes off - guess where - right on the delete changes button - and like that everything in the box is gone!!!
You need to add a confirmation to this and also a notice that this will not undo changes but entirely delete everything in the box!
Another suggestion would be to turn it into 2 buttons - one that does undo your changes and another that deletes everything in the box.
Thank god I was able to go back in my browser and copy what I had before I made the changes and then lost everything! Yes I have to go re-edit the thing, but at least I didn't have to totally redo it all over again!
Fix this! Fix this now!!! I can't stress how important this is to be fixed!!
My apologies if I come off a little perturbed about this incident, but I hope you understand how dreadful it is to realize how easily you could lose everything you just painstakingly worked so hard on!
Thanks for reading and I hope you can address this soon enough to prevent anyone from actually going ballistic over a similar problem.i have had this happen to me sometimes, usually when i am commenting someone, and even if i click back, my stuff will be gone. yes it is rather disconcerting because you have to type it in all over again. this is why i always enter all of my hub content in Notepad. HubPages has a lot of really great features, including saving drafts all the time as you are building your hubs. when this happens to me i shrug it off and keep going, being mindful to take measures of my own to avoid content loss in the future.
i don't think anyone is 'flaming' you...KCC is extremely helpful and positive, as are many of the other people on this thread. when i read your initial post, and subsequent ones, all i could think was that they made you appear demanding, hot-tempered and hostile, even. i'm sure you don't want to come off that way.
Actually, this is a "Report a Problem or Suggest a New Feature" forum...
This just so happens to address both!
I hope you don't get visited by the "Oops..Oh no, it's gone!!" -fairy!- Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago
0 what is going on up there? was that all a sarcastic joke or is htere soemthing wrong with tha guy?...
I delete stuff all the time. I click on the edit button on my browser and then click undo. usally works out. But just to be safe, I usally write everything in a word document before and save it on my hard drive..then I can copy and paste as needed.
Hope everything works out here.
<--- (see, Im being nice)
Wow.
First off, bgpappa, I wasn't being rude, I was upset. If you worked hard on something to see it just disappear, you'd be a little upset, too.
As for responses to problems, you are yet another individual posting to this subject, not with intentions of helping, but to focus on attacking a person who's under stress and is trying to get the source of a problem addressed at it's root, not for the sake of themselves, but for the sake of others.
If you actually read the "OP", I apologized for being upset to the staff because I didn't want to come off as being rude - just upset over the ordeal. I felt it was better that I include how upsetting it is to have this happen in order to convey the urgency of the situation being addressed to prevent others from sharing such a bad experience, thus saving face for both Hubpages and hubbers alike and preventing someone who truly is ignorant, sadistic, and selfish from causing chaos that could harm, collectively, the site.
Right now, I'm again upset because I'm being forced to defend the Hubpages Community, this post, and myself from yet another ignorant, sadistic, and selfish attacker who may very well get this issue ignored due to their ignorance and the constant "negativity" being harnessed in this thread!
I'M NOT HERE FOR THIS HATE SPAMMING!!! IF YOU ARE NOT HERE TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM CAUSING MORE PROBLEMS!!!
Thank you to those who have commented on the situation or have offered advise on it, it is very appreciated and I hope others can take your advice to prevent them from experiencing this issue - unfortunately, I'm afraid they might be stuck experiencing this issue to get here in order to see that advice so (again, unfortunately) it's not doing much good for them here.
EYEAM4ANARCHY and Len Cannon - Good advise, thank you, but nobody should have to do that and, like Marisa Wright stated, it's natural to just work on the post the way you are meant to. I need to also add that using an outside text program can very well be more disastrous as the formatting between the two mediums may conflict with each other, not to mention the formatting in the editor windows here on Hubpages are also a little more unique to the way hubs are displayed.
Crazdwriter - I appreciate the concern and hope things continue to go smooth for you!
Unfortunately, it happens!
Marisa Wright - Again, thank you for the similar advice previously stated, please understand my statement above about not using outside editors to do your work. Thank you also for admitting to what we all will naturally do when we go to post a hub and please understand it's not bad and that it shouldn't be a risk.
Also, on your note, I did re-read the reply and, though it is fortunate to have had this post plugged, the response was intended as an insult and the poster had no intentions of helping the situation, even so much to suggest it be left alone to cause others distress further on down the road. They insinuated I was making demands instead of stressing the urgency of this issue being resolved, and due to that alone I now have this post responding to another individual intent on causing harm (who's response is clearly in support of the previous troublemaker and not directly in response to the "OP" as they've falsely stated).
sunforged - I have to apologize for assuming the worst about a program that stems from a site with hacker in its name, but just to be on the safe side, I have a hacker technician that I will forward that to in order to check it for legitimacy and I'll get back to you on wither it's honest or it's stealing your passwords and other private information.
In any case, thank you for the best advice on the situation thus far.
Misha - To be honest, neither was I! But since it happened, and it's a problem, and since I don't like to just leave problems hanging around, I decided to try and act on it...boy did I open a can of worms! Now this is even more of a reason to get this fixed, don't you agree?
bgpappa - To be honest, I really wasn't expecting much input from experienced hubbers other than having the same misfortune I'm trying to address (and I'm very thankful there hasn't been many). The issue was addressed to the staff here on Hubpages seeing as this has to do with a simple coding fix that even I could do that would prevent this problem (confirmations on deletes are usually mandatory, btw).
As for "blowing up" it was just to induce the seriousness of the problem and reflect on how others may get infuriated with losing a big post on here and quit Hubpages altogether over such a bad error.
As for not finding much of a reason to pipe up on the boards about flare ups that occur, you singling me out like that shows your association with the cause of the flames to begin with.
Last, problems shouldn't have to be avoided, they should be addressed and eliminated so that there are no problems. I accept responsibility for my error with my mouse malfunction, but the fact that there is as much a hair-trigger with their button and that it is misleading is an error on Hubpages part that I'm doing my best point out so that they may correct it.
I myself am a coder and techie, so I know that something like this could have easily been overlooked just as easily as it can be fixed, hence this post.
Now...can we please get some official concern on this, please??Nope. Unlike nice Froggy above, I hope your problem with the site is never addressed, so you get a lesson and next time you have a problem you think not only on what to say, but on HOW to say it, and if it has to be said at all.
Let me just get it straight - you want site programmers to spend at least several hours of their time, likely more, to add a feature to the site that will create an inconvenience of an extra click for all of its users without any benefit to them - all because you don't want to replace your mouse? And you scream it is urgent, and rudely demand everybody should drop all what they are doing and complete your request? And after this you proceed to bash people who came for your rescue, ignoring your initial rudeness?
Why are you surprised to get flamed for this? You more than deserve it. Frankly, if you would have done such a thing on one of my sites, I would probably terminated your account and banned your IP for life.
- mdawson17posted 14 years ago0
Amazing... You get one chance to make a first impression in life and you have made your's! From reading this thread; clearly you need more than your mouse fixed mate!
With a posting entity that is less than 2 months old; You're a newbie with a spammy attitude that will inflame many! You post an SOS call and then become abusive towards those that came to your aid. Are you on medication or just have a personality disorder?
How dare you intimate that there is a high percentage of AHs here! Look at yourself.
As far as your post 'problem' is concerned: It's been answered.
As far as your personna problem is concerned: Get a Life!KCC did absolutely nothing wrong here; other than stopping to help an emotionally disturbed entity that has all the hallmarks of an abusive personality, well practiced at self justification and manipulation.
I've meet alot of autocratic personalities who conduct themselves in such manner; most of them were parties to domestic violence and very much in denial of any wrong doing or need for anger management!
I like to call a spade a spade and make no apology for that. In regards to my opinion on this thread and OP.... I find it repugnant to watch people that I have a lot of respect for in this community referred to as AHs and ignorant; by any new member with a small member problem!
I really think that Darkside made the point in regard to trying to help such individuals; It is a waste of time and not worthy of the effort.Ummmmmmmm... Well Artimis.. His ratio wasn't that bad
(If you wish to join me as the 2 
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As a man with 'Magic' hubs and a 'Creative' opinion of himself... I find it very interesting that he couldn't solve his problem himself!
Perhaps the power was out on his trailer
@ Blue Dog.... Thank youHi there FD...
Yes I Do
It is something that flinches when threatened!
Generally, strategically placed so that you don't get your flippers in any departing matter
However; occassionally they are worn by some; in the position where a mouth should beFlipper in mouth? Or some other orifice. Cooooo. I have big flippers you know.
I suppose the wearer (or bearer) has the orifice(s) to match
Oh
Well. I guess it takes one to know one then. Not very nice. To call 98% (ish) of the folks on Hubpages assholes. More so when there's lots of complaining about being insulted.
That's a 98% direct insult right there, at all in general.
But I'd imagine the 98% wouldn't whine about it.
- cosetteposted 14 years ago0
omg haha
"Agnostic Herbivores"...
that was cute!
well some unknown person just left three hate mails on my walmart hub...they all said "f**K U b***h"....their IP is from gulf port schools in mississippi. i rpeorted them to the hubteam.
oh boy another manic monday. lot of crazies out there...
All I know is next time someone calls me an A-Hole I am either an Agnostic one or an Amateur one
- ryankettposted 14 years ago0
OH!!! You broke a finger nail? That stinks.
the obvious: start a thread about it, what else! URGENTLY!!!
((((don't meant to interrupt, but thanks HT for that post earlier...!)))
please continue people...noooooo way!!! u've GOT to be kidding me!!!!
But HT was doing sooo great....and all the posts I read so far were always witty and interesting! this has to be one big joke!
I'm just mad now.
- poetlorraineposted 14 years ago0
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- Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago0
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