Changes made in admin interface get lost without warning

[davidjb]

If an admin page has been open for some undetermined amount of time, it data being saved can be lost without warning (eg Commit appears to work and page reloads, but changes are gone).

My theory is that it appears that the issue might be related to releasing of locks behind the scenes. I note that I have a dozen or more Squiz Matrix admin pages open at any one point in time so concurrency might be another issue.

[davidjb]

This has been mentioned a long time ago in https://squizmap.squiz.net/matrix/5885

The easiest workaround is not to trust the Matrix UI at all. Do all editing outside of Matrix (use Git, which is what this repo is all above) and copy-paste code in, ensuring that before you refresh the page/asset you're modifying first.

If you forget to refresh and lose your content, you can always just copy-paste again. Easy.