Ever lost a post due to the forum timing out?

If you've ever spent a lot of time typing a detailed post into this forum, you've most likely encountered a timeout. You spend a lot of time and effort making your post say everything it needs to say, then, when you hit the "submit" button, instead of seeing your post published for all to read, you're greeted with the forum login screen! NO!

Is your post gone? The answer is no.

Your browser still knows the information that you tried to submit, and can resubmit it if necessary. So, in case someone out there hasn't figured out how to recover a post lost due to the forum timeout, do the following:

1) Hit your browser's back button. That will take you back to the post composition page. Likely the post text will be blank. This is fine.
2) Open a new tab in the same browser. Go to the Flexsim community forum and log in.
3) Go back to the first tab (where you had earlier composed your post) and hit your browser's forward button. This will cause the browser to resubmit the info you had submitted earlier (your post). It will probably ask for confirmation that you want the data re-submitted. Hit OK.
4) Your post is now published! It wasn't lost after all! (tested in Firefox 3.5.7, but should work in any modern tabbed browser).

The obvious question is, why does the forum time out at all? Well, its a security measure to keep people from leaving public computers logged in to the Flexsim community. The default timeout length is 15 minutes of inactivity (inactivity means you haven't clicked on a link within the forum). We've recently extended the timeout time to 1 hour, so hopefully we'll minimize the frequency that people lose their posts.

Then again, perhaps with the preceding explanation about how to recover a 'lost' post, it won't be a big deal.