logged out while typing a reply again

[HerrBert]

Today i got logged out while typing a reply and adding an attachement.
This already happend a while ago, when i tried to reply with a quote.

Is there something i can do to prevent beeing logged out while typing or is it a bug in the forum software?

[rockedge]

That has happened to me before as well. I am not sure if it is a sudden clearing of the login session cookies or something else. When it happens to me again I will make an effort to track down what is happening. Could be a combination of things and probably is something simple we're overlooking.

[Flash]

How long were you working on that post? The old forum originally had a timeout period of something like an hour. If nothing happened by then, it would log you out even if you were working on a post. It wouldn't know that until you sent the post. A lot of people complained, so the timeout period was increased to two hours and that seemed to solve the problem.

[bigpup]

This has happened to me, but it seemed to be caused by the timeout period activating, when I was taking too long to finish typing a response and selecting submit.
I guess writing a response is not detected as activity on the forum.

[HerrBert]

Sounds quite possible...

At least yesterday i had the reply page open and minimized while editing and
testing one of the scripts i attached and taking a screenshot.

[Chris1278]

The admin should check this.

Check the admin area in the load settings

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Namely under: Session length

The length of the session is set there. You may want to check and adjust it there.

[rockedge]

I have increased the session timeout in small increments and lengthened the timeout value again.

Let's see how it goes.