I lost my entire draft. How do I get it back?

[FilthyPriest]

So I was making a story ideas thread and I guess I afk'd for too long, because when I reloaded the page the entire draft was gone, ~3k words and about 10 hours of work. It said that the draft was saved so I assumed that the draft would have been still there when I reloaded the page, and I was signed in, so is there any way I can get the draft back, or is it just gone forever, and I have to rewrite what I remember, because I really don't feel like doing that.

 

[Biigoh]

So I was making a story ideas thread and I guess I afk'd for too long, because when I reloaded the page the entire draft was gone, ~3k words and about 10 hours of work. It said that the draft was saved so I assumed that the draft would have been still there when I reloaded the page, and I was signed in, so is there any way I can get the draft back, or is it just gone forever, and I have to rewrite what I remember, because I really don't feel like doing that.

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You could open a new tab and see if you can re-load it... but a good chance it's gone.

It's why it's generally better to either use your online e-mail drafts or pastebin or google docs to type stuff and then copy paste into forums.

 

[MissileTeatime]

Yeah, the drafts feature here is only about 24 hours. It's more for saving your comment while you go get a source link in the same tab, than it is for saving progress on long-form work.