WordPress constantly loses my work

(written by Lawrence Krubner, however indented passages are often quotes)

The thing I hate most about WordPress is the way it quietly logs me out, while I’m writing a post. When I am done writing the post, I hit submit and, poof, everything that I wrote is gone! I am suddenly looking at a login screen and my article is gone. Even better, WordPress stops auto-saving once it has logged out, so any draft lacks whatever I wrote during the last 20 minutes.

This just happened to me now, so I’m feeling irritated. It’s happened many times before.

Why can’t WordPress pop-up a warning, when I click “Publish”? Something that lets me know that I’m logged out?