29-07-2012, 09:47 PM | #31 | ||
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Until just now I was convinced that logging in through the website was absolutely necessary to avoid bugs. Is it not the case any longer? I've just started logging directly into the forums because I got a new smartphone, and browsing the website with it is a big no, let alone the forum inside a frame in the website. Since it seems to be working I've started to do the same on the computer. So far so good, although the forum session expires too fast, and I have to log in back again and again, but I already knew that, and it's by (bad) design...
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29-07-2012, 09:49 PM | #32 | ||
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I remember that in the past you absolutely needed to log on the site to be able to be logged on the forums when Studentis took over. After a while (and probably after a fair deal of bickering from the admins here), they finally switched to being able to log directly on the forums instead.
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30-07-2012, 09:07 AM | #33 | ||
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It looks like an advertisement stopped to work and affected the layout.
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30-07-2012, 12:56 PM | #34 | ||
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It should be working now, please keep me updated.
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30-07-2012, 02:29 PM | #35 | ||
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How fast does it expire for you? I've increased the duration to 1 hour in vBulletin options, it can be longer than that if needed.
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30-07-2012, 06:40 PM | #36 | ||
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It works now for me, Dave. Thank you!
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30-07-2012, 06:51 PM | #37 | ||
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Dunno, if I delete all cookies from www.abandonia.com and log back in, the first cookie to expire (called "__utmb") does so in 30 minutes. But I think this was the first time I had visited today and I was already logged in. If you can tell me which cookie it is? The next one to expire apparently takes days. Maybe it's not cookies that decide alone but the server?
I never saw the point in having the session expire so quick, and compared to the website. I guess it's to encourage visiting the forum from the website frame, but I wonder if it's effective, even if that aim were worthy (it probably is for Abovo), or if it makes sense in the tabbed browser era.
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30-07-2012, 10:31 PM | #38 | ||
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The session expiry should be occurring 1 hour from last action you took on the forum. |
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30-07-2012, 11:18 PM | #39 | ||
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I was around chatting with Kosta when he made the chatbox himself. Isn't some kind of code somewhere which disconnect you after a short while of inactivity? Half an hour sound right.
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31-07-2012, 06:39 PM | #40 | ||
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Ah OK so the expiry is decided by the server depending on the last visited value, not by the cookies expiring. All those cookies expire in one year, except for "bbsessionhash", which never expires.
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