Posted By: perfectstorm
\Because shit happens sometimes, it is best to write the review (general and juicy details) in another program. Some folks use text documents, some do it in a draft email folder to themselves. Once it is done, you open the profile, fill out the top portion then copy and paste the details part into the review form. This way even if something goes wrong you still have your original and can redo the copy and paste rather than starting from scratch.
P'storm's suggestions are good work-arounds but some of us want to work in TER-space only and not risk accidentally leaving some text or clipboard or other info anyplace else. Working as an email draft in hobby email can work but it's not convenient (for me) for other reasons.
In Suggestion and Policy, there have been many suggestions to TER about updating their software. Adding a "Save as Draft" or "Save until later" feature to reviews is one of the suggestions.
I think that TER Forum software might have been written in-house. There is no way to Preview or Save as Draft forum posts, either. And the threading is terrible: flat or tree, that's it. There are many free (open software) forum softwares that TER might be able to adapt to. (Importing an old, existing forum to a new, different forum software can be very, very difficult!!)
And, yes, I've accidentally lost reviews and posts. Sometimes I do something wrong. Sometimes, I get logged out due to inactivity (typing is not the same as clicking). Sometimes, I do everything right but I get a TER error message: "Something went wrong!" And the bad part of that is, just trying to "go back" doesn't recover all that entered text. Something else that TER has to consider updating, too.
That said, I'd rather have an occasional annoying glitch than a totally broken system
