Writeboard lost my data
I’ve been wanting to try my luck with writing a certain Firefox extension1 for a while now, and I may have just found the motivation to do so.
Last night before bed, I threw in a “Google Reader rollback” reminder in writeboard and saved it. But to my dismay, only that title was saved, meaning everything else (20+ titles) was gone. Sure, they have versions, but you can’t edit an old version (read: can’t get the textile for a previous version), so all of the formatting and links were lost (sometimes I draft them out, too).
Of course, losing data is typically not something you want to happen, but fortunately for me, I survived. It reminds me of when I somehow accidentally hit “mark all as read” in reader—at first, it’s disheartening, but then it’s kind of refreshing. Anyway, in the end, none of this crapola really matters, I’m just saying, writeboard lost my data. And now my Firefox extension motivation is gone again…
1 When I’m working or reading, I’ll often realize something I may want to post about. I don’t always have the time to write up a post, so the extension would allow me to quickly save the idea for a later date. Similar to the deli.icio.us extension, it’d do nothing more than pop-up a window with one text box for an idea. FYI: I’m currently using writeboard to save post reminders (titles, basically).