I have not complained about the new format and the various changes that have gone into these forums. But, all of the random outages that have occurred this past week have really got me ticked off. It's understandable that software bugs occur, but when these database errors occur, what I had written in a post reply gets dumped and I cannot recover what I wrote! Is there any way of letting us know that you're experiencing difficulties WITHOUT ERASING what we had written?

This has now happened three times the past few days, and I'm not at all happy about it. Websites go down all the time, but when they take what I'd written down with them and provide no way to recover what I wrote, then that's just poor implementation and inexcusable IMO. With the old site, if something went amuck, at least I could click back and wait for the site to go back up and then try posting again.