There are few worse feelings than losing your work that you've poured time energy and passion into. I've been there, definitely a vent-worthy subject.

I draft my posts out in a markdown editor called Bear that even works offline so Im not at the mercy of uptimes and downtimes, also @teamhumble wrote an awesome post about a few alternatives when steemit is down that will still allow you to connect to the steemit blockchain- hope this helps! https://steemit.com/steemit/@teamhumble/alternative-ways-to-connect-to-the-steemit-blockchain-when-steemit-com-is-down