FT automatic logout time is too short and can result in lost posts
Aug 23, 2016 | 3:14 pm
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FT automatic logout time is too short and can result in lost posts
If you log in to your Flyertalk account and start writing a new post (or a new thread), and you take your time to do it thoughtfully (or get distracted in the process), then by the time you finish writing your post, your login has timed out.
While the forum says gives an option to log back in, you cannot really post what you've written (and I had lost my post at some point that way).
The best way is to open a separate window, start a new post, and then copy-and-paste what you've written.
(I don't think it matters, but I've observed this in Firefox on Windows).
The only workaround that prevents this is to check "remember me" (for a persistent login), but this is not practical if you are using someone else's or a public computer to write a post.
A reasonable behavior for when you don't check "remember me" would be like that found on many bank/financial websites: if you are active, don't time out the session. If the session is close to the timeout period while the browser window is idle, open a notification and let the user to extend the session.
While the forum says gives an option to log back in, you cannot really post what you've written (and I had lost my post at some point that way).
The best way is to open a separate window, start a new post, and then copy-and-paste what you've written.
(I don't think it matters, but I've observed this in Firefox on Windows).
The only workaround that prevents this is to check "remember me" (for a persistent login), but this is not practical if you are using someone else's or a public computer to write a post.
A reasonable behavior for when you don't check "remember me" would be like that found on many bank/financial websites: if you are active, don't time out the session. If the session is close to the timeout period while the browser window is idle, open a notification and let the user to extend the session.
Aug 23, 2016 | 6:48 pm
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If you log in to your Flyertalk account and start writing a new post (or a new thread), and you take your time to do it thoughtfully (or get distracted in the process), then by the time you finish writing your post, your login has timed out.
While the forum says gives an option to log back in, you cannot really post what you've written (and I had lost my post at some point that way).
The best way is to open a separate window, start a new post, and then copy-and-paste what you've written.
(I don't think it matters, but I've observed this in Firefox on Windows).
The only workaround that prevents this is to check "remember me" (for a persistent login), but this is not practical if you are using someone else's or a public computer to write a post.
A reasonable behavior for when you don't check "remember me" would be like that found on many bank/financial websites: if you are active, don't time out the session. If the session is close to the timeout period while the browser window is idle, open a notification and let the user to extend the session.
While the forum says gives an option to log back in, you cannot really post what you've written (and I had lost my post at some point that way).
The best way is to open a separate window, start a new post, and then copy-and-paste what you've written.
(I don't think it matters, but I've observed this in Firefox on Windows).
The only workaround that prevents this is to check "remember me" (for a persistent login), but this is not practical if you are using someone else's or a public computer to write a post.
A reasonable behavior for when you don't check "remember me" would be like that found on many bank/financial websites: if you are active, don't time out the session. If the session is close to the timeout period while the browser window is idle, open a notification and let the user to extend the session.
, what I do now is to periodically preview my post as that keeps the post intact (unless of course you wait too long to decide to preview the post )
Aug 29, 2016 | 4:33 pm
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Try Lazarus: Form Recovery extension.
Aug 29, 2016 | 7:41 pm
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Thank you!
As an aside: Sometimes, when one of my former bosses wanted something done by somebody from a supporting infrastructure units, he was going to "light a fire under that person's
Try Lazarus: Form Recovery extension.
But when you are writing from a computer that is not your own (and that's one of the cases when you don't want to have a persistent login), you do not (or cannot) install extensions. And that's when problems described happen.
BTW, I suspect, it might not be available for some browsers (e.g. IE).
Aug 30, 2016 | 10:57 am
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Cheers.