Typed a longish PM to someone today and got this after clicking on " send message"



Happens quite often now

I think your Internet had dropped out between starting to write the message and clicking send.

If it happens again, open a new Tab/Browser Page and try to go to www.google.com or www.bbc.co.uk -> If these load then there's a temporary problem with our Web Host or the route between you and the Web Host. If they don't load your home internet is temporarily down/offline.

Don't try to refresh/reload or go back on the Tab where you have written a Forum Post or Private Message, when you are confident your internet is working again, go back to that Tab and try and press the back button. This should bring you back to what you had written and you should then be able to post it again.

Yes. happening on two machines,

Yes, that's the magic thing about Google Chrome, I love it when it saves my ass in similar scenarios (like when I accidentally close a tab where I am still writing a post ). Additionally to that, Josto, I suggest you start picking up this habit of mine, it can prove really helpful in scenarios like the one you depicted and it takes just a second.

And that is: when you are done typing a really long PM or Forum post, press Ctrl+A on the keyboard followed by a Ctrl+C, and you'll select and store all the text in the clipboard. If your internet cuts out, and the trick by 5tarLine does not work for any reason, you will still have a copy of the whole text in your clipboard.

Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

P.S. When you face problems like this or with Discord or with your PC / the game, try to stick to the Support board please.

I also backup to clipboard with those shortcuts before posting something long

Actually, on second thought, try to start by following solution 1 listed here (let's attempt this on one of your two PCs only, so pick one and stick with it ... perhaps the one where this issue occurs more often?). If the PC you've selected is a Laptop, then perform the same procedure on its WiFi adaptor too (in other words, in step 3 of the procedure you want to perform all the remaining steps on the "Ethernet" adaptor and on the "WiFi" adaptor too, this in case you have a Laptop).

Moving on, after you're done, open the command prompt (open your Start menu - on the bottom-left corner of the screen - and type CMD: you'll see a program with the following icon, click on it: ). A black window will open, I don't know if you're familiar with it or not. You simply want to type this command in it, and then press Enter to execute it:

ipconfig /flushdns



In the end, let's give it all a spin! Jump backwards three times on one foot, power off your PC, go wash your hands without soap, reboot your modem / router at home (watch it, any other family member will lose connectivity for a bit though ), and then report back here if you face any difficulties and of course, if you experience the same problem happening on the machine you have performed these steps on.

We will perform the same stuff on the remaining machine if the issue is solved in the former machine.
Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93