Have you ever, by accident, lost a piece of content you took your quality time to create prior to hitting the publish button? If yes, how was the feeling? Painful right? You know, every blogger encounters one challenge or another, right from the writer's block, the choice of words, a suitable title for a particular piece of content, or perhaps a suitable cover image for your blog.
I faced most of these challenges in my early days on HIVE, and even now, I still face some of them sometimes, but not as they were back then. I have been on the learning process with some improvement; however, I see losing my written content as a big challenge that weighs me down each time it happens.
The good news is that I have found a solution to this challenge, but before I share with you what the solution is, of which I am sure most people are already aware, I will love to tell you about my encounter yesterday about losing my written content!
I had a Dreemport Challenge post to catch up with yesterday with a deadline. This challenge post is very important to me, as a lot of dreemers are competing for the dreemer of the year crown with a juicy prize. Not writing the post means that I will be losing a point, which I wasn't ready to deal with at this stage of the competition. So I had a hectic day yesterday, but in the evening, I sat down and started gathering my thoughts together over the contest topic. After a while, I began writing at peakd. As I wrote, I saved them in my draft paragraph by paragraph until I reached the conclusion, which was the last paragraph, and all of a sudden, the peakd interface went down.
At first, I thought it was just a little error, but I was totally wrong. All my efforts to log back proved abortive. It was 10 p.m. when this drama was unfolding, and I had just 3 hours left to submit my post to the Dreemport website or I would lose my point for yesterday. Every countless attempt I made to access my draft in Peakd went crashing, and sincerely, I felt devastated. I had a long, so stressful day that it was by grace that I wrote the post, so to think that the only option for me is to start all over again using another front end made me so weak and I felt demoralized. I wish I had my text somewhere else. I wish I could do magic to copy my post from the draft and just paste it on the other front end to publish. If wishes were horses, indeed! Well, I created the content afresh after I waited for two hours for the interface to come up without success!
Prior to not having access to my draft yesterday, I had lost my written content twice in the past. The other time, I mistakenly clicked on discard post instead of edit post, and the other time, the interface reloaded and wiped off my content. These experiences weren't funny to me as a blogger. In all the cases, I lost the motivation to start all over. I mean, no one would love to repeat a particular job well done. The plan is always to carry out one task and move on to the next because time is money.
I have been exploring different interfaces on Hive, and I use many of them in my blogs, but for some reasons, I love writing using the Peakd interface and then copying and pasting to any front end I want to publish from. However, my experience yesterday taught me a lesson that serves as a solution to lost content commonly encountered by content creators, which are:
Writing on external sources such as- - - - Docs.
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Obsidian
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Using Google to keep applications mobile (https://keep.google.com/u/0/), etc. And then copy and paste in hive using any preferred front end. I think with this tactic, the issue of losing written content might become a forgotten issue, and users will perform their activities without such interruptions.
If you have experienced a similar issue, I hope these solutions can be of great help while you continue your blogging journey on HIVE or if you have a better approach to the challenge. Please share with me.
I appreciate your time on my blog. Thank you!
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