Yup, I had at the very first time same issue, server connection lost, then I went to another and all stuff was gone, it wasn't like I got pretty much stuff, nor rare, but it's still an issue. I suggest auto-saving option when there are connection issues on servers, should implant some auto detector just in case and see if that could help, dunno if it's possible for developers, but that's my suggestion.

Can confirm. Had this same issue as well this evening. Seems to be the first people to join the server. Two other friend died at the same time as me whilst logging in; other members of our group who connected around 90 seconds later spawned in without issue.