Forum Question - Why Can't We Stay Logged In?

[odonovan1]

I am getting SO tired of logging into the forums, reading a thread which may have a number of posts with large fields of text, taking a bathroom break and getting a soft drink, then hitting "reply," to post to the thread...

...only to find out I'm not logged in anymore!

Come ON! This is one of only a couple forums I've seen which don't retain session cookies until logout. I must ask, why not? Once I log in, I've put my password in. I should stay logged in until I log out or at least until a few hours pass with no activity. This is beyond annoying.

/set me = rant off

-Irish

[SNIPER62]

youre checking the "remember me" box, right? I've never had any issue with staying logged into the forums.

[odonovan1]

youre checking the "remember me" box' date=' right? I've never had any issue with staying logged into the forums.[/quote']

Yes, I am. But it happens whether or not I check the box. It seems as if it's on about a one half hour activity timer. However, reading a page full of long posts does nothing to keep the timer running, as I'm only scrolling down the one page I have loaded. Of course, that's interspersed with doing things for my wife and kids, bathroom breaks, et cetera. Even when I go from one forum to another, it doesn't seem to reset the timer.

Could we have a BIT longer before being booted? A two hour timer would mean I could make dinner, have time to clean up, make sure everyone was taken care of, and still be back in time to stay logged in.

Thanks!

-Irish

[B2K]

I've been logged in for over a month... maybe cookies on your computer?

[usmfan777]

Yes, I am. But it happens whether or not I check the box. It seems as if it's on about a one half hour activity timer. However, reading a page full of long posts does nothing to keep the timer running, as I'm only scrolling down the one page I have loaded. Of course, that's interspersed with doing things for my wife and kids, bathroom breaks, et cetera. Even when I go from one forum to another, it doesn't seem to reset the timer.

Could we have a BIT longer before being booted? A two hour timer would mean I could make dinner, have time to clean up, make sure everyone was taken care of, and still be back in time to stay logged in.

Thanks!

-Irish

Has to be a setting in your computer. I've got my info stored in three different computers and my cellphone and I have never had this issue.

[odonovan1]

There is no way to have a setting on my computer to automatically delete cookies partway through a session, unless the session lasts more than a day and the setting deletes cookies every day (a setting my browser, Firefox, does not have). I have the option of keeping cookies until they expire or deleting them when I close the browser. I choose to delete cookies when I close the browser. That means the session should remain open unless I close Firefox, which is not happening.

The "Remember Me" checkbox will match up unexpired cookies with the username, when I come back to the site to start a new session. I don't keep cookies past the current session, so that shouldn't do anything in my case.

Basically, there is no setting on my browser which should time me out. This HAS to be some function on these forums. As I mentioned in my original post, this happens to me on some sites and does not happen on others running the same code.

For those of you able to stay logged in for extended periods of time, there has to be some function causing your device to "ping" the site every so often, to see if the connection is still open/valid. That would show, by the BB code, as activity. That would be enough to keep you logged in.

-Irish

[usmfan777]

Is your username/password stored in ff? Or do you retype it every time you get logged out

[SNIPER62]

what about Internet Explorer or Chrome?

[maxios]

Odonovan are you f2p?

Think there might be a bug in the forums for such accounts, hence the need to relog to forums.

[odonovan1]

what about Internet Explorer or Chrome?

IE is a security nightmare. Probably 90% of current viruses are built to specifically target it. Chrome is Google, which is well known for building in spyware and datamining its users, even spying on them and turning information over to law enforcement agencies. That's something I don't agree with, so I refuse to use their browser.

O'Donovan are you f2p?

Think there might be a bug in the forums for such accounts, hence the need to relog to forums.

Nope...not FtP.

-Irish

[SNIPER62]

IE is a security nightmare. Probably 90% of current viruses are built to specifically target it. Chrome is Google, which is well known for building in spyware and datamining its users, even spying on them and turning information over to law enforcement agencies. That's something I don't agree with, so I refuse to use their browser.

Nope...not FtP.

-Irish

odonovan1, i wasnt trying to get you to use either one full time...this is about testing to see if your browser configuration on firefox is the issue. troubleshooting is about testing different pieces of the puzzle and firefox is one of them.

if you try the forums for 2+ hours and they stay logged in a different browser then it means it's your browser that is the issue. if the same exact issue happens in different browsers, then it is not your browser...

[OHM]

Odovnovan1 ;

Has this just started or has been an on going issue ?

[delta1262]

Actually, this happens to me for Google Chrome on Mac as well, although I'm f2p if it makes a difference.