Didn't see a subforum dedicated to actual forum usage questions so this seemed like the best spot.
Is the forum login timeout very aggressive for everyone, or is it just me? I haven't been able to determine the exact value, but compared to most forums it seems much more aggressive than typical; pretty much if I leave the tab idle for a little while and then come back to it, I can pretty much be assured I'll have been logged out and will have to log back in.
Just wondering if this is intentional and if so, why.
Maybe something in your browser cleaning up cookies? I don't remember the last time I had to login.......
Yes, the timeout is quite short. I've been locked out while replying several times.
The default is one hour. If you click on the "Login" button without supplying username and password, you are redirected to the extended login mask.
There you can either pick a longer timeout or activate "stay logged in" - see screen shot.
HTH,
Patrick
Ah great, thank you for that tip. I'd never encountered that dialog as I was just logging into using the username/password fields in the forum header.