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Comment by DaniFong | Hacker News Reader

I don't know if this was my client acting up, or perhaps an unconscious mouse movement, but I've been trying to update the application for a while now. For some reason the update button isn't working (is the server hosed? Is the internet cafe that I'm at breaking?) but when I checked the two fields you mentioned, all but one of the names were eliminated from each (and the intersection was zero).

(Edit: I was using commas instead of spaces, which might account for the weird behavior. Does YC search the usernames for each token? Because then only the last names would have had no comma, and so they they would remain)

So, I can't really remember if it was just me, but it's possibly a bug...

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I've noticed that when I was editing the application and left the window open for a long period of time (maybe 30 minutes - 2 hours) I would find that clicking 'Update' would return an error. I'm not sure if Refreshing my page helped, but when I clicked the back button my application would be saved. I only remember it from the trauma of the prospect of losing my data. I thought it was a time-out issue.

This happened to me a while ago, I would say late August, early September.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66604

I got that error quite often too, "link expired".

Save regularly, then it works out alright.

What do you mean by "isn't working?" What happens when you click on update?

Well, it says "loading" and "waiting for YCombinator". It does this for an arbitrarily long period of time. It's quite possible that the network providing wireless changed something which breaks AJAX, because since this morning I can only get Gmail to work in HTML mode here. I think that this service with used all across the bay area though (it's called Freeva, I think), so that might explain why many people are having problems.

Edit: Does edit work? I wonder... Okay. Apparently, yes for here, but not for another post I made.

It's the same server (in fact, the same process) you're submitting this comment to.

FWIW, I got a server timeout earlier today when I took just over 30 minutes to start on my application. It looks like it is easy to lose your cookies just under normal use.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66604

Thanks. "Save your work every 5 or ten minutes" might be a little more clear for numbskulls like me than "We recommend you save regularly by clicking on the update button at the bottom of this page. Otherwise you may lose work if we restart the server." -- Saving regularly to me just means every so often when I think about it. This may vary according to the intensity of what I'm doing. And restarting the server does not sound like a normal occurance, so the instructions were taken as more of a general warning that a specific immediate threat. After the first loss, I saved in a much more regular manner.

"We recommend you save regularly by clicking on the update button at the bottom of this page. Otherwise you may lose work if we restart the server."

Implies one would only lose work is when the server is restarted - an event that usually doesn't happen multiple times a day.

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