Timeout

[Greg F]

What's the timeout set to for this site? It seems very low. :confused:

[ellswrth]

What's the timeout set to for this site? It seems very low. :confused:Can you help us out by explaining what "timeout" you're referring to?

Were you doing something and in the middle of it the site told you that you were no longer logged in?

Let us have some additional detail and we'll investigate.

Scott

[Greg F]

I seem to be getting booted out of the site after maybe five or ten minutes of inactivity. For example, if I check out a video link to another site, often I'd have to log back in here.

The other day I got booted out even in the middle of writing up a post.

[ellswrth]

I seem to be getting booted out of the site after maybe five or ten minutes of inactivity. For example, if I check out a video link to another site, often I'd have to log back in here.

The other day I got booted out even in the middle of writing up a post.
I checked this out - the site times out at 900 seconds (15 minutes) of inactivity.

But you also need to have a cookie from the forums to stay logged in when leaving and coming back.

If you don't have a cookie, I'm going to speculate that your session expires when 15 minutes pass without activity. I can't test it, but I have reason to think it's the case.

Are you using cookies and permanent login?

Scott

[Greg F]

Cookies, yes. What is permanent login? Is it that check box on the login page that I never click on?

[ScotcH]

Cookies, yes. What is permanent login? Is it that check box on the login page that I never click on?


yes :)

[malcolm]

one thing I find annoying is how little time it takes for the forums to refresh and mark all threads as "read". If I don't get through the whole site in 10 minutes or so, it says that everything is read and then I have no idea what I've gone through and what I haven't. Is there any way to extend that time?

thanks. :)

[thekid]

one thing I find annoying is how little time it takes for the forums to refresh and mark all threads as "read". If I don't get through the whole site in 10 minutes or so, it says that everything is read and then I have no idea what I've gone through and what I haven't. Is there any way to extend that time?

thanks. :)

Yeah, that's the only beef I've found with this forum, since it moved to the newer software.

[ellswrth]

one thing I find annoying is how little time it takes for the forums to refresh and mark all threads as "read". If I don't get through the whole site in 10 minutes or so, it says that everything is read and then I have no idea what I've gone through and what I haven't. Is there any way to extend that time?

thanks. :)Don't know about that one.

Do you use the "Back" command to go back to the thread list or do you click a link?

I'll look into it when there's time.

Scott

[malcolm]

50% of the time I click links...
25% of the time I open each thread as a new tab...
25% of the time I press back...

roughly. :)

[thekid]

I always click on the "New Posts" option when I come to this site to browse the unread threads, but if the New Posts results span across 2 pages, and i get through all the threads on page 1, sometimes i go to click on page 2 and it says the link is no longer valid... (basically the posts have been marked as read at this point)

never have this issue on other forums using vbulletin....
i pretty much always use the back button both here and on the other forums...