Are you using the app or a browser? I do the latter and seem to be okay. You may need to close all your apps, power down your device, let it dool down for a few minutes, then power up and reload. This works for both computers and handheld devices like phones and tablets, It gets rid of a lot of trasitory funkiness and gives youa fresh, clean, working environment. Or else the issue just hasn't gotten to me yet! Good luck!

You are right. i have tried what you suggested, but the problem returns. But my ipad is on it’s last legs. as well.

You could try changing the way you get in. It could be the app you choose. I usually use Brave browser, which is stable. And I use https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/cooking

I don't know if either of those would help, but unless weird stuff is happening elsewhere it seems less likely that it's caused by the iPad.

Yes - I have that issue along with multiple other houzz/gardenweb tech eccentricities. None of which occur for me on other sites. The one time I attempted to log out and log back in to attempt fixing something or other I couldn’t get in at first, then the cooking forum disappeared, houzz tech help said that there wasn’t any such thing as a cooking forum. I think I went back in my browser history to get back in and haven’t attempted to fix anything since...

Thank you neely, that sounds like exactly my problem. i will try your solution.

Given the additional information it sounds like something I've occasionally experienced. It appears to me to be an issue between real time back and forth between the device and the servers. If that's right, the cure—given no incentive for Houzz to overhaul the system—is urban, high speed internet with an efficient delivery system, which isn't easily available to many people. But it could actually be the dying iPad losing it's hold on the signal.

I’m not sure if this applies to an iPad, but on my laptop I use Word to type it all out, then copy/paste to this site.

The whole GW has this issue, only when I use my phone. The only way to type anything is to let the pre-emptive words show up. Is that the right word? You can't type the word it will disappear but if the word show up and you click on it, it sticks.

No issues on my laptop, only my phone, so I don't use my phone on GW.

I wonder if it's the ads? I use my iPad Or computer and have no issue. It has to be something tripping the time out, IMO.

I, too, have this problem throughout the Houzz/Gardenweb forums. When my typing stalls, I hit ”Done” and am then able to return to quickly typing in the text box. The “stall” can happen multiple times, depending on the length of my response. I have an iphone.

I have this issue on my ipad but not on my PC. ...... at this point it has stalled and I have had to w..... ait. It got so slow I submitted it then went back in to edit to get it moving again. This issue is the reason my responses tend to be r..... (submitting and editing again) ather terse.

It's called predictive text, Jasdip. I have the same issue and also tend to avoid using my phone to access this site.

Pretty sure this will remain a mystery for all time, but my hunch is it's a combo of separate factors: wonky interface, slow internet connections, varying browsers and operating systems - all combined with this site's *ahem* idiosyncrasies.

In re: the phone typing issue - I have noticed that when I go back and insert letters or words into already typed text, it doesn't vanish, but maybe that's just me...