Rich Lucibella
Staff
Unlike the previous version of the software, we can no longer use the Back button to recover our newly created post when a problem occurs. This is not desirable...however, it's not in our control.
A few Members have complained that they compose a post and, when they hit Submit, are sent to a login page and their post lost. We believe the problem is in the cookie timeout.
It's actually quite simple. All cookies must be set to time out after a given interval or they would never update. The interval for TFL is 15 minutes. Therefore, if you're composing a post and take more than 15 minutes to do so, you run the risk of timing out and your post not being recorded.
A couple of solutions:
1) When you're composing a long post, create an activity on TFL every 10 minutes or so. Even hitting Back/Forward should restart the clock.
2) Play with the "Browse Board with Cookies" feature in User CP/Options. These have all been forced to "Yes" with the upgrade. If you click "No" for this feature, your session is run thru a Session Hash and is no longer dependant on cookies at all. This may resolve the problem.
Rich
A few Members have complained that they compose a post and, when they hit Submit, are sent to a login page and their post lost. We believe the problem is in the cookie timeout.
It's actually quite simple. All cookies must be set to time out after a given interval or they would never update. The interval for TFL is 15 minutes. Therefore, if you're composing a post and take more than 15 minutes to do so, you run the risk of timing out and your post not being recorded.
A couple of solutions:
1) When you're composing a long post, create an activity on TFL every 10 minutes or so. Even hitting Back/Forward should restart the clock.
2) Play with the "Browse Board with Cookies" feature in User CP/Options. These have all been forced to "Yes" with the upgrade. If you click "No" for this feature, your session is run thru a Session Hash and is no longer dependant on cookies at all. This may resolve the problem.
Rich