Thread:Toughpigs/@comment-3508190-20120718223943

The message wall editor sometimes doesn't load. It just gets stuck on the throbber image. It would be very helpful if there was some sort of timeout - maybe coupled with an error message: "The editor doesn't seem to load. Do you want to try again?" Either way: The editor desperately needs a way to gracefully handle network congestion. An infitinite loop has never helped anybody.

This problem is exacerbated thousandfold, if the editor has already loaded and you try to switch to the other editor and that one doesn't load. Your post is now gone. You cannot see it anymore. You cannot copypaste it anymore. You cannot even extract it from the DOM with Firebug. It's just gone. You really should find some way for users to at least recover their texts when the editor switch fails. 