The "Time-Out" Function

After the "new" HAMB was released, I noticed that after 10 min. or so of inactivity, you get logged out automatically. You have to re-log-in to post. You may lose everything you typed if you don't cut and paste it first.

Some of us at work pull up the HAMB and then get side-tracked doing, well, WORK!

Sometimes, I am reading the HAMB, and follow a link to something non-HAMB related, I come back to post, and BAM...I have to re-log in! WTF?

Then there are the posts that garner some thought, and research. I see them, begin posting, and after 10+ minutes, all of a sudden I lose everything I typed (unless I copy and paste) only to have to start all over again because I have been inactive and I have to re-login.

I am really irritated by this new time frame I am expected to get all my thoughts in to. This time constraint only contributes to shoddy responses; and one liners...because people try to cut corners in their informational responses when they are trying to beat the clock.

I have responded to people, with detailed descriptions of things, only to be told that "you need to log in again" because too much time had elapsed. Guess what? If I didn't copy and paste what I wrote, I lost it all.

If I didn't re-type it all, it becomes the poster's loss, not mine.

I guess what I am saying is the time allotment to post needs to either be lifted or changed to be more generous, because it's WAY too short in my opinion. I spend 10 minutes writing something, and I am logged out automatically???

BTW...

I submitted this and got the "blank white page". That never loaded.

It was only after going back to this original thread that I was able to post this...luckily I cut and pasted this before my time ran out...

You can see people's frustrations...

UPDATE 4/24/07: It may have something to do with security settings in Mozilla VS. Explorer...or a software change...who knows. I have been running Mozilla for over 4 years now and never experienced this problem, and never changed any settings after the HAMB revamp.

 

Kevin, I might leave the HAMB on minimized for hours while at work or home and never get booted or a time out page displayed.

Your setting are screwed up

 

I think I'm on years

 

Ryan- I did check that box. I never had a problem until after the HAMB was revamped recently.

I use Mozilla. So now I'm wondering if that is the problem. I have all my security settings set to not remember passwords. For instance, one of my email accounts is Yahoo! I have to log in to Yahoo! email each and every time I close completely out of Mozilla. No browser windows open. If I keep just one browser window open, I am fine- otherwise, I have to login from scratch. It was not always so with the HAMB. I could close it out completely, re log back in, and off I go...but I NEVER had a browser open, sat idle for 15 minutes with it open, and was told to re-log back in.

It wasn't until recently that I would be on it for 10-15 minutes idle, and have to log back in. I used to leave myself logged in all day...go work in the garage for a couple hours, come back, and there I was- like I never left. Not so anymore.

I don't save any passwords or settings thru Mozilla...and I haven't for 4+ years now....but up until recently, the HAMB was never affected. I'm stumped.

Seriously, it's like 10-15 minutes (I never actually timed it) before I get bumped and have to re-login...even if the browser window is up the whole time. It's REALLY annoying.

I guess I have to deal...I've run into problems before running Mozilla with a couple of websites. But I refuse to use Explorer. Moz is so much "cleaner".

Thanks for the input...

Kev

 

need to put this n the faq....ive been searching for hrs..lol had to come here to find it...but should fix me...thanks

 

Another Lazarus thread raised from the dead! HRP