To The Admins: About Time Outs

[Nick250]

Is there anything you guys can do to increase the lengthen the time a session lasts before a time out occurs? An hour seems good to me. Or is it a setting on my end that needs altering?

Nick

 

[Seth=L]

Depending on what browser you are using it should prompt you when you put in your password, but there is also a check box next to your password that says "remember me" So evertime you are on here it will have you logged in unless it is not attended for a while at which point you can just refresh your page or go anywhere in the site to log back in.

 

[Nick250]

Depending on what browser you are using it should prompt you when you put in your password, but there is also a check box next to your password that says "remember me" So evertime you are on here it will have you logged in unless it is not attended for a while at which point you can just refresh your page or go anywhere in the site to log back in.

Seth, I think you are missing my point. Here is an example:

I come home from work log on AH and hit "new posts". There are 50 of them. Post 10 is of interest to me and I spend 5 minutes checking out my facts and writing a response. While reading post 11, I get a phone call from work and that takes 10 minutes. At some point thereafter it's very likely I will time out and lose the "read first new post" feature.

 

[Seth=L]

You are right, I think I am still missing the point. If you want to go back and review posts from those 50 threads just hit back while you are on said thread 10. If you hit new posts it will assume that you have already reviewed the 50 and show you the posts made after your last activity.

I am going to guess this isn't what you are looking for, but I figured I would give it a shot.

 

[Tom Andry]

I basically do what Seth suggests (hit back) but I know, from watching over his shoulder, that Clint scans the "new threads" page, opens a new tab for every thread he's interested in, and closes it when he's done.

As far as increasing that time... I have no idea. Clint would be the one to ask and he's still MIA for a while. But since he obviously has his own personal way around it, if it could have been extended, he would have done it by now IMO.

 

[MDS]

I work more the way Clint does except I am using IE without tabbed browsing and I use 'open in new window'. The reason I do it that way is so I don't lose the list of new threads. If you view a thread that is new and already has 3 pages you'd end up hitting back 3 times and I find that annoying.

 

[Seth=L]

I work more the way Clint does except I am using IE without tabbed browsing and I use 'open in new window'. The reason I do it that way is so I don't lose the list of new threads. If you view a thread that is new and already has 3 pages you'd end up hitting back 3 times and I find that annoying.

As much as you post you should have a improved browser. IE has better versions out now of coarse and then there is Firefox.

 

[MDS]

It's what you get used to. It's very efficient to have multiple windows open and I could take or leave the tab feature - all it does for you is reduce the number of open windows.

I get enough of Firefox on a day to day basis as I am working on one of the extension modules. I don't really care to use it as my main browser.

 

[Audioholics]

OK, I just changed this to one hour - I think... let's test it out.