[ Closed ] Growing TNBW (Page 2 of 2)

By the way, Sol, are you advertising the current newbie contest anywhere? I know I saw an ad about our site on Booksie a while ago. I'm just curious if you did anything specific for the contest.

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Dirk

The timeout bug in the forums still exists. Sol, was any attempt made to eliminate that bug, or am I testing the original version with the timeouts?

Sol, I'm not sure if you saw my previous post. The timeout problem in the forums still exists. Has anything changed with regard to this bug?

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Dirk

If I take too long to write a forum post, the system will log me out. Seems to happen when I leave my browser (Chrome) pointing too long at a specific forum post or forum. For example, I currently have my text cursor in the Post Reply field of this thread (Reviving TNBW). If I were to walk away, it logs me out pretty quickly. It also logs me out pretty quickly if I take too long writing a post like this reply to you. Usually, that's merely a nuisance (if I attempt to post my reply to this thread and the system has already logged me out, it will still post it, after which I have to log back in). This happens a lot.

The problem is greatest if I try to post a new topic and I take too long. Not only won't it save what I wrote, even the browser's back button won't get me back to what I wrote. This bug hits those who write long forum posts hardest since everything you wrote is gone. It happened to at least one new user some months ago that I know of. It also happened to me several times. Naturally, a new user who loses an hour's worth of typing isn't going to be happy.

These days, I usually (though not always) remember to copy the content of my forum post to the clipboard in case I run into this bug.

EDIT: For example, it kicked me out while I was writing this reply.

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