# Bear Web offline detection **URL:** \ **Category:** Bear Web\ **Tags:** bug, features\ **Created:** [April 15, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-offline-detection/16143 "2025-04-15T21:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cheesetec](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/cheesetec/32/6201_2.png) [@cheesetec](https://community.bear.app/u/cheesetec)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-offline-detection/16143/1 "2025-04-15T21:11:25Z")
**Operation system** : Windows 11 **Web Browser** : Firefox 138.0b7 (64-bit) Title explains itself - Currently its possible to be working in Bear Web, and lose all your changes as either your authentication token has expired or you are offline. It would be nice to have some small client-side check to make sure you are still working online. After my laptop woke from sleep, I made an entire page edit and lost all my work; I hadnt noticed sync wasn’t occurring and after finally checking my phone I noticed the note in its old state with no edits. * * * ## Bug report **What were you doing** : Modifying a note on a stale web-browser session **What feature did you use** : Note editing **What happened** : Sync wasnt occuring, on fresh all changes were lost. **What did you expect to happen** : An alert to warn the user they are offline or signed-out, and need to refresh their page. * * * **Feedback:** Overall happy with the Web UI experience, but this is an important QoL feature that I hope ShinyFrog consider. ---
**Author:** ![bru](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bru/32/179_2.png) [@bru](https://community.bear.app/u/bru)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-offline-detection/16143/2 "2025-04-15T22:02:38Z")
Hi and thanks for the feedback. You make a very good point, and I completely sympathise with your case. The current tradeoff in Bear Web is to prioritize security by means of not storing any relevant user data, especially content, locally. This makes supporting offline work and long edit session challenging at best. The good news is that these are still early days for Bear Web, and the offline experience is likely to improve in a future release. ---
**Author:** ![cheesetec](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/cheesetec/32/6201_2.png) [@cheesetec](https://community.bear.app/u/cheesetec)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-offline-detection/16143/3 "2025-04-15T23:59:20Z")
Thanks Bru, not necessarily asking for a Offline mode - just a way to warn me when when I’m disconnected so I don’t accidentally start making changes that will go into the void I’m looking forward to the future of Bear Web and upcoming features 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bru](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bru/32/179_2.png) [@bru](https://community.bear.app/u/bru)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 7:44am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-offline-detection/16143/4 "2025-04-16T07:44:22Z")
> [@cheesetec](#): > > just a way to warn me when when I’m disconnected so I don’t accidentally start making changes that will go into the void Actually, we do have an icon in the top left that shows when the network is unreachable… maybe we should make it more visible on the web. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/1/113d41e09ef189fe9b60e0398d0fa3e67170ed36.png) ---
**Author:** ![cheesetec](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/cheesetec/32/6201_2.png) [@cheesetec](https://community.bear.app/u/cheesetec)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/bear-web-offline-detection/16143/5 "2025-04-16T07:56:19Z")
wow I never noticed it 😮 , thanks for the tip! Maybe a nice bright red colour will make it more noticeable?