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Exactly as the title says. The Cloudfare protection page can trigger while hitting the Preview post button (and probably other ones). When it does, it will redirect you back to the correct page but the entire post's content will be gone.

I almost had to re-write an entire post because of it.
I'm aware of literally nothing that can be done about this. Cloudflare works by intercepting requests to the page to make sure the visitor is legitimate. It has no way of knowing that you're writing a post or that you're going to lose something because of it. The only workaround I can suggest is to copy posts before making them, which can save you from other similar bugs or unexpected situations.

The only thing that can be done on our end is to deactivate Under Attack mode, which is not plausible at a high-risk time like this.
Originally posted by Telinc1
I'm aware of literally nothing that can be done about this. Cloudflare works by intercepting requests to the page to make sure the visitor is legitimate. It has no way of knowing that you're writing a post or that you're going to lose something because of it. The only workaround I can suggest is to copy posts before making them, which can save you from other similar bugs or unexpected situations.

I just noticed I spelled Cloudflare wrong, oops

I'm surprised that Cloudflare doesn't have an option for handling POST requests so they don't just vanish into the aether.

Though I guess copying posts is a good enough solution, since there's many other issues that could happen such as losing internet access. That happened to me once while writing a 10,000+ word article on The Cutting Room Floor, not a fun experience tbh.
This happened to me a few times but hitting the back button always brought back the text.

It's still annoying as hell though.

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