That's awful. I would really like to understand why it happened, in case it is some forum setting I can control. There is a forum security setting:cryptic.ruse wrote:So I just spent an hour writing a reply to this and when I went to post it, I was asked to log in again, and then my reply disappeared. It seems I am automatically logged out after a short time. Bummer!
This is currently set to 2 hours. Could you have taken more than 2 hours? If not, it suggests something else was to blame. The thing is, I have never experienced it myself with this forum, despite having sometimes taken 4 hours or more to complete a post. What happens when I do that, is that when I click Preview or Submit I get a message saying there was an error and I should click Submit again. And when I click Submit again, it works fine. Perhaps it is somehow automatically logging me back in when it does that. Browser settings could be involved. I'm using Firefox. What are you using?Maximum time to submit forms:
The time a user has to submit a form. Use -1 to disable. Note that a form might become invalid if the session expires, regardless of this setting.