Forum sign in times out too quickly

Hi,

I'm not sure if there is an option to change this somewhere, but I keep typing out detailed answers to posts, only to have all of the text disappear and a box pop up when I hit "post reply".

The box says something like you are not logged in, ie my session has timed out, even though I have been logged in for around ten minutes or less.

This has happened several times now, and it's frustrating to have a large post just disappear.

Cheers,

Scott

I feel your pain. Now, if I know my post is going to be more than a few sentences, I select all of it and copy it to my clipboard before clicking the "Post Quick Reply" button. That way, if it times out while I was typing, I can just log back in, paste it back in the post box and post it. It still sucks, but it's better than losing your whole post.

Have you tried logging in when you get the pop up. You may find that your message still gets posted after you log in (at least that's the way it's worked for me in the past).

Strange, it never logs me out, do you use the remember me check box?

Thanks for the replies. I suppose I will try all of these suggestions. I think I have tried to log back in but the post was gone. I have done what you mentioned in the past dabomb, just sometimes I forget to do it. Just earlier today it happend to me, I wrote a very detailed reply and hit post, and as I was hitting the button I just thought "oh no!", it's going to happen again.

I probably haven't used the remember me checkbox, I usually don't on any many websites. I will try that out too

I will copy this reply now, just in case :)

edit:

It happened again. I tried what you said JimTM, and it did work after all.

Thanks again for the responses.

Cheers,

I've had the problem a few times on mobile devices where I don't like to use the "Remember me" function.

Then I decided I'd rather risk some family member or friend writing a nasty post in my name (though I have absolutely no idea why they would do it, even if they could) rather than having to re-type messages all the time.

I agree that basically the timeout (or the maximum session length) is way too short. It should be at least an hour, more like two. When I type a post that long, I always keep a copy in a text file anyway, also to protect against power failure, computer crashes and so on.

(And yes, I have written posts that took me two hours to write... :D)