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Michael said, "Your destiny is to create a new ultraliberal paradise across the stars called the Garden of Eden — Take Two."
Joseph scrunched up his nose. "Sounds like a movie set. How about ... the Garden of Eden — Sans Pommes or maybe just the Garden Sans Pommes? The Ancient French adds a certain elegance, don't you think?"
"The garden without apples?" Michael considered. "I like it."

Interesting. MS Edge has the same timeout problem in the forums. On a hunch, though, I went through all of my Google Chrome settings to see if any of my choices might be interfering with the operation of the site/forums. Mostly it involved carving out exceptions for TNBW in a number of my strict settings (e.g., tracking, advertising, popups, etc.).

The problem appears to have gone away; I left my cursor in one of the forum posts for much of the evening, and wasn't logged out (yet). It usually logs me out in under an hour. Let's hope it stays gone. I'll update this if it reappears.

EDIT: Cool. Well over 12 hours sitting in this forum/thread, and I still haven't been kicked off the site. I can die happy now.

And I also still get kicked off if I stay too long in the forums. Fyi, I don't believe this problem existed years ago because I've written long brainstorming posts since we cut over to this site. Back then it never happened. Not sure when it first started. I believe Kdot looked at some of the site cookies at one time and found some that may contribute to the timeouts. My memory is fuzzy on that, though. I'll try using Edge for a while to see if the problem is just with Chrome, then post an update here.

Thanks.
Dirk

You both had me digging through my reviews to be sure it wasn't me. :-)  My account still has a bug such that it doesn't show me all my past reviews without me jumping through hoops, but it looks like I'm caught up. Please let me know if that's not the case.

Hi Alan.

I'm very sorry to hear that Diana's life is coming to a close. Still, it's fair to say, we'd all kill for a caretaker like you when our time comes. I suspect she knows that too.

I'm sure everyone understands if your recips are a little slower than usual. Mine have been sluggish at best for some time.

Welcome back.
Dirk

If I wind up with 70-year-old memories, that'll mean I outlived most of my nearest male relatives. At that point, I'll throw myself a big going away party. Carpe diem!

Welcome to the site, Ironwolf. I had a quick look at your chapter. Please have a look at an article I posted in the Premium forum with tips on how to maximize the number of reviews you can receive. It's pinned near the top of the forum, so you can't miss it. One key piece of advice from that post is to always include the Premium group when posting any stories to the site. Most of the best reviewers aren't members of many other groups, if any, so they won't even see your chapter being posted unless you include Premium. Although posting to Premium requires you to use points, that means your reviewers will receive points for reviewing your chapter. Your reviewers need points to post their own work to Premium.

If you really want to fast track getting reviews, start reviewing the works of others. Begin with the works you see scrolling down your home page. Those writers are guaranteed to be active on the site at present. We have a lot of members who are only here part-time or come and go as life dictates, so not all are active. Since you write sci-fi, join the Fantasy/Magic/Sci-Fi group, if you haven't already. If you look at the stories/chapters posted to that group, the most recently posted are likely to be from active authors too. Check the date of their posts.

I'm drowning in Canadian income taxes this weekend but will try to have a look at your story as soon as you post it to Premium. I don't need points (I have a huge stash), but unless you start reviewing and posting with points (in Premium), you'd be wasting your time here during your trial period. Points are fairly easy to accumulate, made even easier with a recent change to the points system. Generally, for every 1000 words you want to post, you need to review 3000 words (or 3 x 1000, if you prefer) to get enough points to post your work. To get the maximum benefit from this site long term, you'll need reciprocal relationships with other writers with whom you can trade reviews. In general, if you regularly trade reviews with three other writers, you'll probably earn enough points to keep posting. Most of us have at least five such relationships, so gathering points is easy.

The best writers, including some regularly published authors, tend to be the best reviewers too, but they usually stick to Premium. By reviewing their work (they need feedback too), you learn from them how they write, and when they reciprocate, you'll get the most experienced feedback available on this site. Try to use inline reviews instead of regular ones; they usually require a little more time to do, but are more useful to most writers than regular reviews. Giving and receiving reviews usually leads to those long-term relationships with other writers that you need to benefit from this site.

Feel free to post here with any questions you may have. You can also send me a connection request if you like, so we can use private messages. I do volunteer user support on the site to help get new members up to speed as quickly as possible, so I'm happy to answer whatever questions I can.

Have fun!
Dirk

Thanks, Sol

Bill, does it happen with deleting the account too? I've been kicked out before as well, although I can't recall which operation I was trying to perform.

I had been suspending accounts because it looked from the list of accounts that that's what you were doing, but after you and I discussed it, I thought you were deleting them, which isn't what I saw, but I rolled with it, and resumed deleting accounts.

You usually get to them before I do, so I don't encounter this bug much, but it does get annoying.

You bet. :-)