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I read you post however, I need to interject here. I experience the same inconvenience yet on a much short duration... like 30 seconds. I love POF but it is a bit annoying to constantly log in everytime I chane a window. Any suggestions, oh great and powerful Oz?
I am back active on POF and find it VERY frustrating. Many new users I'm sure will get frustrated and leave as there is insufficient time to properly reply to an email.
I use a workaround by keeping another browser session open for the log-in and then send the message however those not as savvy with computers and browsers will not figure out how to save the message and loose their work.
There needs to be a workaround here - possibly a java pop-up if the session has timed out to easily allow the user to log in and then resend the message. OR - accept the message to a file, set a cookie, and present it back when the user logs back in?
Helpp!!! I'm in log out land also!! Never used to be, but within the past two weeks something happened to change the timing on me. As everyone else stated, you barely have time to read and/or answer an email before you're being timed out again. If you're reading the forums, you get timed out... if you're browsing profiles you get timed out.... I'm sure by the time I finish typing this comment I'll be timed out again. Very frustrating... I think the idea of having the option of being timed out or not is a great one... this way everyone could decide for themselves.... Please, please... can we give that one a try???
I experience the same inconvenience yet on a much short duration... like 30 seconds. I love POF but it is a bit annoying to constantly log in everytime I chane a window.
There needs to be a workaround here - possibly a java pop-up if the session has timed out to easily allow the user to log in and then resend the message.
As everyone else stated, you barely have time to read and/or answer an email before you're being timed out again.
hey i know i might be brinning up a qustion thats either already talked about or not related but i'd apreciate a email to my pof account to understand.
I've had problems with misunderstanding on weather a person or myself have been online because once a person hits the log off button the site still shows that person online for 15 minutes. why is this and is there a way to turn that off its a big enconvenince for myself and alot of my friends and family and hope to be soon bf on this site we all agree this should be changed.
Nothing to do with what "should" be done. It actually takes up to 15 Minutes for the Server to fully register you are no longer here. Its a technical Issue ... the Way Things work.
Let me know if you guys are still having issues, i've made a lot more changes and it should get ride of some of the issues listed here. Unfortunately for AOL users who switch IP's every page request its more difficult
Seriously, this needs fixing. If this is because of load balancing, then it's a design problem to solve (I'm saying this as someone who used to work professionally on HPCC distributed operating systems that have replaced any need for melatonin in my night life). I'm not saying it's more important than this or that other issue, or that by-golly-fix-it-by-friday, but please folks don't pretend that a cause of a problem is a logical justification for it in of itself.
I fully understand that there are limited resources as far as time to work on the server infrastructure, though this is a simple thing (functionally) that I know will make a lot of people happy. I would recommend defaulting to at least an hour. And, could we remember the passwords? This does not work consistently even with FF3's password manager. That would be awesome!!
I agree the timeout is way too short, but what I do when composing a message that's not ultra-brief is copy and paste any long messages to my wordprocessor program, and then log back in and hit the "back" button a couple times, as Cowboy suggested above.
it still happens, admin, but like the top post this page says, I realized you don't have to re-log in....just hit the back arrow and it brings up your message as you wrote it and you can press send then and it will send....seems you are still logged in, really, even though it says at first you need to log in again.
my only difference with my discovery and cowboy's at the top of this page is I only have to back up one page and then send....not twice, as he found he needed to.
I've seen this in Internet banking applications with ASP.NET applications losing session state. I don't recall what the exact fix was but MS may have the answer. Here's a related article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325056/en-us
Right! Both my friends account and mine work the same way (FireFox 3 and Safari).
Hit back space once and then hit send again and the message goes through. No logging in again required. It's worked like this since I got here 3 weeks ago.
*twittles thumbs and toes while waiting for 3 day "newbee" restriction to expire*
I seem to recall when I was learning PHP a few years ago something about good practice for UI design, and how you can save the content of web forms so the information is still there if you go back. Not sure if it was invoked client or server side. I imagine you could use a client side cache, or a cookie or something? Are there serious obstacles to doing this that I'm not aware of? It's happened to me (hit the wrong button and BAM it's gone...), and as you can see others feel pretty... um... strongly... about this issue, too.
I agree with the poster that suggests there is very little to none bandwidth being used when the users computer is sitting idle or if you are typing a message.
I suggest the mods look into just how easy it would be to let have no timeout at all. I am a member of many forums, mostly all free and leave my computer on all night (by mistake usually) and am still logged in, in the morning. If you aren't sending or receiving any data then not much is going on bandwidth wise.
I am not complaining just trying to bring this to attention, as this is a great site for free
My question is related to this topic....I think I understand that if you are inactive (not checking emails or clicking anywhere on the site) for 15 minutes you will be logged out.
My question is can someone still be showing as online if they did not log off but left POF open on their pc after 2 hours or so???? Is there ANY time this MIGHT happen?
Since I've gathered from what I read that after 15 minutes of inactivity you get logged off....this technically shouldn't be able to happen -- unless inactivity is defined as something other than moving from page to page within POF.
If someone is not doing anything in POF other than IM'ing some, would they still show as online?
My question is related to this topic....I think I understand that if you are inactive (not checking emails or clicking anywhere on the site) for 15 minutes you will be logged out.
My question is can someone still be showing as online if they did not log off but left POF open on their pc after 2 hours or so????
After 15 Minutes or so you will no longer show as being Online.
.this technically shouldn't be able to happen -- unless inactivity is defined as something other than moving from page to page within POF.
The Load Balancer is causing Sessions to "Time-Out" being bounced between Servers the Admin spoke of on the previous Page of this Thread.
If someone is not doing anything in POF other than IM'ing some, would they still show as online?
Once you are IM'ing, you are connected to Userplane Servers and it makes no difference whether you are E-Mail logged-in or even whether your Browser is open or not.
So NO, they may well be in an IM Session, the log-in timed-out and the Link no longer showing.
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