That happens to me too! And it really gets on my nerves!
I've let DD know, so that if there is anything that can be done, he is looking in to it. But I've heard no word from him on it yet. I'm not sure that there is a fix.
- As for Maintenence issues: I haven't been informed of anything being done on the site. It could be something being done by our hosts - but they're usually careful to make sure that those changes don't take any time amount of time...
As a follow-up to that Jagger: some of the time (when I remember) I author my post locally in word or a text file. Every once in a while I'll accidently hit the windows key, and exit out of the browser in mid-post, and lose everything. Or accidently delete everything with a hot-key, or the like. It reminds me to use Word when it happens, and then paste it all in to the browser when I'm done. Admittedly: I don't always remember - but the reminders are painful enough...