# I gotta vent this out... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-vent-this-out/201684 "2003-09-15T04:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wolfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Wolfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfe)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-vent-this-out/201684/1 "2003-09-15T04:48:26Z")
I know there is a thead on technical issues in About This Message Board but there is no end to the frustration I have experienced many times on SD. May be it’s just me but most of the time I try to access SDMB page, I can’t get through. I always get that Page Not Found error message. The worst had been when I was posting some long topic/reply, which essentially required some thought and clicked on submit. And what do you? Yes, the page not found error again. You click on browser’s back button only to find out that whatever you had written has disappeared. Is there something that I’m not doing that others doing that keep them posting successfully? The only times I’ve been able to post successfully have been at nigh. Else it’s all a matter of luck. ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-vent-this-out/201684/2 "2003-09-15T04:50:25Z")
I don’t run into problems very often but I always copy everything into the clipboard just in case. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Wolfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfe)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-vent-this-out/201684/3 "2003-09-15T04:53:42Z")
Pedro, I tried doing that too few times but then there have been times when you forget or times when everything seems to be working fine and boom! all of sudden you get that error again. It’s just seems inevitable. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-vent-this-out/201684/4 "2003-09-15T05:24:41Z")
Yea, I get the Page Not Found error all the time. Persistence and having no life keep me reading. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-vent-this-out/201684/5 "2003-09-15T06:54:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wolfe \* > \*\*The worst had been when I was posting some long topic/reply, which essentially required some thought and clicked on submit. And what do you? Yes, the page not found error again. You click on browser’s back button only to find out that whatever you had written has disappeared. \*\* Most of the time the post went through nevertheless. That’s where all them double-posts mostly come from. Don’t believe what the board tells you. Submit is submit, once you click it, your post’s there. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-vent-this-out/201684/6 "2003-09-15T07:05:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pedro \* > \*\*I always copy everything into the clipboard just in case. \*\* I do that, too. Also, if I can tell that it’s going to be an exceptionally long post, I type it out in Word or something. That way, not only do I not have to worry about the hamsters losing my post, but I can spell-check the thing as well. ---
**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pedro)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-gotta-vent-this-out/201684/7 "2003-09-15T09:48:28Z")
Yeah, no matter what you do sometimes your post really vanishes and it’s precisely the one you forgot to save. I always check to see if it went through when I get an error message and I’d say it’s 50/50. Of course, it’s easy to see why I rarely run into problems since I average 0.2 posts a day. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joe Random \* > \*\*Also, if I can tell that it’s going to be an exceptionally long post, I type it out in Word or something. That way, not only do I not have to worry about the hamsters losing my post, but I can spell-check the thing as well. \*\* I do that too!