Petition to make MSE forums stop logging users out every few minutes

Pound

I don't usually like to moan but I'm getting seriously annoyed with it. The activity time out seems to be somewhere around 10 minutes before I'm logged out. I do otherwise like these forums and this means I'm constantly having to type my username and password.

Sometimes I'll even sit and read a thread and by the time I click on the link for the next page I'm logged out. Because the posts per thread setting for logged out users is different to my own setting this means the next page them becomes posts I've already read.

Can the auto-logout time please be set to a sensible time? I think 6 hours would be reasonable. 10 minutes is just silly.

Nile

Pound wrote: »

I don't usually like to moan but I'm getting seriously annoyed with it. The activity time out seems to be somewhere around 10 minutes before I'm logged out. I do otherwise like these forums and this means I'm constantly having to type my username and password.

Sometimes I'll even sit and read a thread and by the time I click on the link for the next page I'm logged out. Because the posts per thread setting for logged out users is different to my own setting this means the next page them becomes posts I've already read.

Can the auto-logout time please be set to a sensible time? I think 6 hours would be reasonable. 10 minutes is just silly.

Hello Pound

Do you click for a tick in the 'Remember Me' box?;)

When I log in as Nile and enter my password, I always click on the box to the right of the 'Log in' box in the 'Remember Me' box.............and I don't get logged out until I decide to log off.;)

Tarry

I've clicked REMEMBER ME and touch wood, I have yet to be logged out.

Pound

I'll try it but I'm sure I've tried that in the past and it didn't make any difference. Saying that I did it a while ago and I haven't been logged out yet.

MrsTinks

it definitely logs you out fast if you don't tick the remember me button Make sure you tick it and see how you go

tigtag02

oh dear................................

savemoney

I never have any issues of logging out not even once.

I also use roboform to store my usernames/passwords to about 80 web site I use

You can get firefox to store some passwords very easily that doe sthe tick too

Pound

I have to admit that clicking remember me does seem to have solved the problem. Thanks.

ShimSham

Glad your problem was solved. I can't remember being logged off MSE, but it does happen occassionly to me on another site I visit regurlarly. Deleting the cookies for that site usually resolves the issue.