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Longer Auto Logoff time needed

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I was just writing a long post with a lot of inciteful and diligent research, and found I'd been automatically logged out of the forum while in the middle of writing my post. Luckily I managed to salvage my post and get it though anyways, but I have lost posts to this in the past, as I'm sure other members have too.

I'd like the amount of idle time before the forum automatically logs a member off to be lengthened so this does not cause a problem in the future.
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Re: Longer Auto Logoff time needed

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Hmmm,I looked in the settings and can't see anything that controls the time limit. I think it's a hard coded time limit in the session management code and is there for security reasons.

I'd suggest that you prepare long posts in a word processor first and then copy that into the forum when you're ready. Hopefully that will work for you?
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I'm in the habit of hitting Crtl+A and then Ctrl+C whenever I finish writing a post, so that if it messes up I can just Ctrl+V it back again :).
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Gambit37 wrote:Hmmm,I looked in the settings and can't see anything that controls the time limit. I think it's a hard coded time limit in the session management code and is there for security reasons.

I'd suggest that you prepare long posts in a word processor first and then copy that into the forum when you're ready. Hopefully that will work for you?
I can fully understand the need for security. It's too bad you don't have any control over that feature though, as the limit to me seems a bit too strict.
Ameena wrote:I'm in the habit of hitting Crtl+A and then Ctrl+C whenever I finish writing a post, so that if it messes up I can just Ctrl+V it back again :).
Yup, I learned that lesson myself when I had a long post lost when something messed up. If all else fails I can cnrl+v it to notepad and save it if it's important and things aren't showing any signs of getting better (ie: the forum's down).

Anyhow, that's definitely good advice. Still, it would've been nice if that were an adjustable setting.
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Out of interest, how long do you judge this time limit to be? I thought it was an hour which should be long enough for most things.
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I have a Firefox add-on called textarea-cache for that problem, also helps with accidently closed browser tabs.
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I have never had this problem. I keep the "log me on automatically each visit" checkbox checked. Maybe that will help?
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I too never had this issue, and I too have the check box on as Sophia suggests.. I've left posts incomplete for days at a time.. I get a slight warning once I go to post them after that long, but hitting the submit a second time usually sends the file just fine, I'm also using Chrome if that has anything to do with it.
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Well I really don't understand what all the fuss is ab
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^Ha, funny!

I think administrators aren't constrained by any time limits as I too have never seen this problem.
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Like SU, I experienced the same problem twice. Took a while to write my post and when I was ready to submit I was logged out. The first time I lost all my text. The 2nd time I was more wiser to write in a word processor.
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Re: Longer Auto Logoff time needed

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LOL, yeah, I think most of those who've written a long post have lost it at least once before learning to be careful of the auto log off. Of course, usually when I write a long post, I don't initially intend for it to be long, but when I start writing it, I get on a roll and it just ends up that way. :wink: :roll:

I guess you could also try hitting the "Preview" button to generate some sort of activity to let the system know you're still active...
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