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What am I doing wrong here??

Two times in a row I've created a page and saved it SEVERAL times, then I went and did other things.

When I came back it was gone!! Both times! It's not on the Chapter's & Pages page (even after refreshing), the page itself just brings me an error code, and the link on the page before says it leads to {Page Not Found}. I wasn't too upset the first time. The second time I had almost the whole page finished! I know it's not gonna be good if I rewrite it because I'm gonna feel defeated.

Is there any way I can get that page back? I'll write it again (and save it to a Docs or something) but it'd be a lifesaver if it was somewhere out there still.

For reference, the page is called "Meet Me Inside", and I've made a third one that seems to be working fine

My personal guess is that the site is rejecting it for comma issues

I have had the text on pages get wiped (due to human error, oops) but never experienced a page being completely gone.

Is there anything at all in between the process of you saving the page and you returning that could have been a factor?

Maybe that I had the page open on a different device while typing on the other one? I wouldn't think that would have any effect

I could see how that might result in the text getting wiped, but no idea how it would cause a page to get deleted.

I'm going to keep trying to replicate this, but for now, a safe bet would be to just keep things safely backed up in a google doc or something.

I think I figured it out!

So, I created the page on my phone. Then I went and reloaded the advanced editor page on my laptop so it'd show up. I then edited the page and saved— but I'd never saved the page's creation on my phone, so when that timed out it fell into the void.

At least I think. Does that sound plausible?

I haven't tried recreating it, but it does sound completely plausible. The site was in no way designed for any scenario where phones were a thing.