As an auction thread owner, I often times edit/post new threads, and while writing isn't the most arduous of tasks, but when you are adding 5+ lions/esses to an auction thread or writing a detailed reply to a friend, it does take a bit of time, so when you accidental click your 'go back' button on your mouse, or accidentally close the tab, it is understandable extremely frustrating. Perhaps it is just me being very clumsy, but too many times I've lost a lot of work because I've accidentally done something that has sent me backwards to the last page.

As an example, earlier this morning I wrote a long suggestion topic about a mutation, this took me quite a while to do, but I didn't mind as I enjoyed researching in more depth a defect, and then writing down my ideas on how it could be implemented. Just as I was just finishing off the topic, I clicked the 'go back' button on my mouse, and lost it all. As you can imagine, it was more than frustrating, and I am not alone in experiencing this fustration.

What I am suggesting is for there to be a save button at the bottom of the 'post new topic' and 'create new message' thread, right next to the preview and post/send buttons. Clicking this button could bring up a small box in which you have two+ save slots that you can click to save your writing, or click to save over if you so wish too. Giving people access to two+ save slots would allow people the chance to save their thread while they are writing it, so that if they were to accidentally go back to the previous page, they would be able to reload their work from one of the two+ save slots. This leads into my next point.

With the save button, you would likely also need to have a load button next to it. Players can click this button to bring up a box that displays the save slots, and then click one of theses slots to load up the writing that was previously saved.

I do not know how long, or how hard it would be to implement into the game, though I have seen it in some online websites before. I also apologise in advance if this has been mentioned before. Keep up the good work devs!

...And finally I'd love to know if I left anything out, if any of it doesn't quite make sense or you just don't think it will work so that I can edit it and hopefully make my idea more refined. Sorry for the long read! :3