I've been trying to post a not particularly long message and it's been timing out instantly when I click on the "post" button. At that point, I get a message to try again but all of my previously entered post text is lost.

After this happened several times, I decided to try to post in smaller chunks, doing several short paragraphs separately. I managed to get my first sentence or two posted, and then I went back to edit in order to add text. This time when I clicked on the post button, FT again gave me the timing out error message and it DELETED what I had previously posted.

Editing obviously should not delete the post one is editing. If FT really did time out, shouldn't the previous version of the post remain in the thread?