Must have been a short-lived glitch.

if you wish.

it's still doing it when I try to reply to a reply in the "Donald Trump is very ill" thread.

Weird.

Some characters are forbidden in titles and/or text.

To prevent hacking by injecting weird characters.

Note! Some greek characters (math characters) render and others don’t. THIS is a goof, but a low priority fix for the admins.

It seems inconsistent eg. didn't happen with this post.

maybe by some fluky circumstance it only happened in the original case(?).

I never know when a "preview" or "post" will hang up in the network, and going back will either restore my text (the title is often lost) or lo-se everything.

So, I use a browser extension "ghosttext" to mirror my typing in a text editor (this is for computer savvy people to install, but I got it to work with Firefox, Safari and Opera)

OR, like on the phone, if I have typed a lot, I copy all the text plus the title, to Apple Notes (any editor will do) so if it all goes bad, I post all over, copy and paste from the text editor/Notes and then cut and paste the title from the first line to the "title" field.

Why? Because networks are flakey. I was thinking of a way to cure this, and even post pictures, but it is a BIG DEAL and would cost me for the storage and risk of copyright takedowns (pictures and me). That's the nature of these web-based apps.

An app? Sure, that's way more work, and out of the question, though an inspiration could come any old time.

I usually do a ctrl A, ctrl C before clicking Post especially if the post is a long one in this or any other online app.