Official Complaints/Concerns/Opinions - Page 4

Ballbarian · #1 August 17th, 2008, 11:28 PM

I may be way off track, but can you confirm that you have bbpassword & bbuserid, and that they have the 2009 expiration? I assume that you do, but just in case.

Otherwise, all of the ones that you have listed expire when the session ends for me as well, plus a few that you do not have listed.

JimMorrison · #2 August 18th, 2008, 12:29 AM

Well, Firefox is set to keep cookies "until they expire", and to ask me before clearing any personal data. I haven't really ever messed with the settings at all, so I didn't think that was it.

I was under the impression that it was the site that was logging me out, not my browser. If that's not the case, then I'm mystified.

Edi · #3 August 18th, 2008, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by JimMorrison

Well, Firefox is set to keep cookies "until they expire", and to ask me before clearing any personal data. I haven't really ever messed with the settings at all, so I didn't think that was it.

I was under the impression that it was the site that was logging me out, not my browser. If that's not the case, then I'm mystified.

It's the site. I have my settings set to keep cookies until I close Firefox, then delete everything. Just leaving the forum pages open and logged in and doing something else for half an hour or less when I don't have any activity on the forum and it automatically logs me out.

Unless I checked the "Remember me" checkbox when I logged in, in which case it keeps me logged in until I log out. The autologout timer really should be set to more than 30 minutes. About two or three hours would be good, because it is VERY easy to have something come up or needing to do something. Sometimes it has taken me well over half an hour to just format a post correctly and it's a goddamn pain in the *** to have to log back in and maybe even lose all the text I typed, so copy-pasting into a text editor before you hit submit is a good idea.

The current autologout limit is extremely user-unfriendly.

Mindi · #4 August 18th, 2008, 08:20 AM

The session expiration is set for 60 minutes......so again it doesn't make any sense.

I will try to see if I get the same results on firefox. I usually use IE so that could help narrow it down, but again based on the information in the back end, there is no reason the site should be logging you out in less than 60 minutes and personally even if I have been idle for over an hour, the site never logs me out. Again though, I primarily use IE.

Hentzau · #5 February 22nd, 2009, 05:31 PM

Sure is a PITA to register for this forum, and why don't new releases get at least temporary top billing in the forum list? WPP is way way down there.

On the other hand, the forum seems to work well on really bad dial up, which is a BIG plus to me so thanks.

Ballbarian · #6 August 18th, 2008, 08:27 AM

Firefox 2.0.0.16 here.
I left the browser open and sitting here idle over night and still logged in.

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Originally Posted by Edi

Unless I checked the "Remember me" checkbox when I logged in, in which case it keeps me logged in until I log out.

I would say this is the solution. I bet that I ticked that ticker when I logged in.

Mindi · #7 August 18th, 2008, 10:04 AM

I've let my session on firefox sit idle for an hour and a half and no log out here.....again as long as you do the remember me button. That is the way vbulletin is set up and that part we can't do anything about.

Fyron · #8 August 18th, 2008, 04:55 PM

vbulletin failes to properly auto-parse urls in posts that end in ). It cuts the link off before it is finished, missing the closing ). For example:

http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Mods_(SEV)

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Originally Posted by lch

I'm on Firefox 2.0.0.16 myself and as reported earlier, I have frequently experienced the auto-logout myself.

You need to upgrade your browser.

lch · #9 August 19th, 2008, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Fyron

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Originally Posted by lch

I'm on Firefox 2.0.0.16 myself and as reported earlier, I have frequently experienced the auto-logout myself.

You need to upgrade your browser.

Upgrade do what? 2.0.0.16 is the current version from the 2.x branch. Maybe there's another workaround to make the browser vBulletin-friendly?

Fyron · #10 August 19th, 2008, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by lch

Upgrade do what? 2.0.0.16 is the current version from the 2.x branch. Maybe there's another workaround to make the browser vBulletin-friendly?

The current version of the browser, obviously. You're only going to run into more problems over time running obsolete software (esp. since FF 2 will not see new updates to the Gecko rendering engine, ala FF 3). If you're worried about screwing up your profile, just make a backup copy of it before upgrading..