Time-Outs?

[phil441]

I'm sure this has been covered several times but I can't find a thread on it.
My question is about the "default" time out while logged in and perusing the different forums.
When I find a question I can answer I immediately go to my references and by the time I'm ready to hit the "post" button I seem to have timed-out. A few times I've been able to re-log in to the forum but other times it has been a copy/paste answer. Sometimes my answer just seems to go away and I just give up and go to bed.
Any ideas?

Phil

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[Badger]

Very odd ...

The default time-out for the site is 15 minutes of no activity, after which time the user is logged out of the site.

I'd recommend the following ...

1. Check your Internet browser and make sure it's set to accept "cookies" ...

2. Clear your Internet browser's memory cache, make sure you are logged out of our site with the Log Out button and then close down the browser.

3. Re-start your computer and open up your browser.

4. Make sure your bookmark or the site you type to get to the forums is either:

https://www.milsurps.com/index.php

or

https://www.milsurps.com

Using either of the links above, come to the site and fill in the information to login (see attached pic). Note: Make sure you check the "Remember Me?" box which sets a browser cookie on your local computer, so you don't have to login again every time you come to the site.

Run a test of some sort that you know in the past has caused you to be logged out, even though you're still logged in and doing something.

Let me know how that works ...

The only other thing I can think of is if you're typing a post and you're not doing it longer than 15 minutes, select the Preview Post now and then, to make sure the site knows you're still there. To be honest, I'm not sure if the vBulletin software recognizes typing activity while during creating a post as an activity, so it's better to be safe than sorry.

Regards,
Badger