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Inspiring
April 27, 2009
Question

Forum session login/timeouts

  • April 27, 2009
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We've had some changes made for session timeouts. Are people still having to constantly log-in throughout the day? Today I've managed to stay logged in without any forum activity for up to 3 hours or slightly longer. Has it improved for others? The login session should now be about 4 hours. It was supposed to be two hours previously, but for some accounts it might have been shorter.

John

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    Anonymous
    April 28, 2009

    I sincerely trust that 4hrs is not going to be all that can be achieved!


    It is most annoying to have to log back in and extremely annoying if it happens in the middle of a reply.


    Kath-H
    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    April 28, 2009

    I wonder what actual reasons there are for logging people out automatically on a timed basis - technical? other? I can totally understand the reasons for doing that with the adobe store, but not for a forum.

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    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    April 28, 2009

    Quite... the old forums, you stayed logged in for months!

    And no other forum, that i've been to, has a time factor... as long as you don't sign out, you stay logged in. This is hardly a high-security area that needs to be guarded like it was Fort Knox.... though now, maybe the security there has got a lot laxer with the gold being shipped out

    J
    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    April 28, 2009

    Quite often, a day or more...

    MichaelKazlow
    MichaelKazlow
    Legend
    April 28, 2009

    Sometimes, I get logged out when closing the browser or putting the computer to sleep. Other times I can keep logged in for more than a day. Go figure.

    Kath-H
    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    April 28, 2009

    It's better. I never did get logged out in the middle of posting, for instance, but often while going from one forum to another. I don't think log-outs should happen while a person is active in any way. I'd still like the option of indefinite log-in, as well as being able to stay logged in from different machines. If the store log-in times out quickly (I didn't know that), then surely there's no harm in letting people choose, as already suggested.

    Again, it is very good to hear what is being worked on, to be told what changes are happening/going to happen/can't happen.

    Ramón G Castañeda
    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    April 28, 2009

    John Cornicello wrote:


    …The login session should now be about 4 hours.

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    April 27, 2009

    I get knocked of twice in a day.

    early in the morning 7-9:00am EDT (depending upon when I turn on computer) and I was just logged off about 10 minutes ago.

    I would be ideal if we could have indefinite sign it. But 24-72 hours would be tollerable.

    In the webX system unless you choose to logout you stayed logged in indefinitely.

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    Anonymous
    April 27, 2009

    the logout seem better. but i'm still concerned that people WON'T be logged out while their ids are tied to the adobe store.

    adobe-admin
    Community Manager
    adobe-adminCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    April 27, 2009

    The store has its own timeout, set to around 10 minutes or less. So if you navigate to a store page from a forum page it should prompt you to log in, no matter what your status was in the forum.

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    Anonymous
    April 28, 2009

    adobe-admin wrote:

    The store has its own timeout, set to around 10 minutes or less. So if you navigate to a store page from a forum page it should prompt you to log in, no matter what your status was in the forum.

    cool... i'll have to try that... if that's the case, what's wrong with providing a checkbox like google or yahoo (or even /.) that says "keep me logged in for 2 weeks" or more...? that was my biggest concern (with the combined logins)... anyway, i'll have to try that and see. i'll report back...

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    Anonymous
    April 27, 2009

    MIne seems to be better, but it's still annoying that we are being logged out even within the same day.

    The other issue that has come up, for myself and others, when we get logged out/logged back in, the page that loads is NOT the page we left off on!  There is a thread on Page Refresh issues that addresses this issue.  (it happened again this evening, which is why I am bringing it up).

    hopper

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