Forum timeout can kill a long post

mikesmith_inFL · Post by **mikesmith_inFL** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:49 am

I just spent about 20 minutes writing the details about a question I have.
When I pressed 'submit' it wanted me to log in again and lost all the details for my question.

If the forum is going to log people off after a timeout, can someone please set it up so that the thread
a user was working on isn't lost?

This is sooo frustrating.

( I couldn't find a forum section that seemed directly appropriate for this.
If there's a better one, please let me know or move this over there.
Thanks )

dolbyman · Post by **dolbyman** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:34 am

yes, trick is to just go back and repost via the cached site

forum cookie timeout has been set by qnap to 24 hours a couple of years ago .. reason is unknown

Moogle Stiltzkin · Post by **Moogle Stiltzkin** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 3:36 am

sometimes i find just select all text, copy, paste into a notepad, BEFORE submit. just in case of situations like you reported. That is the only sane fix i managed to cope around this issue X_X;

OneCD · Post by **OneCD** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 3:40 am

As @dm already said, if you attempt to submit or preview your post and find you've exceeded the 24hr login timeout, just login to the forum as usual, then go back a couple of pages in your browser and submit your post again. Your web-browser keeps the form content you've typed in its cache.

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