Clever PC

It obviously accumulates the time you are wasting while chatting and disconnects for serious work.

I've participated in some chat rooms as well some time ago. The same thing happened to me every once in a while.

It's a guess, but I think the servers get overloaded and "forget" about one or another chatter.

On the other hand I think chatting is worse than small talk. Chatters usually talk a lot without saying anything - just wasting time (which is money according to my knowledge and experience).

Even the forum chat doesn't give me any satisfaction. (It's just "Rhabarber")

The reason is easy: Two members of the round get into a dialog others don't have a clue what those both are talking about and leave - one after another - frustrated.

Two people might communicate pretty well. If they get more they should consider making it a singers group like the Ray Conniff singers. They didn't talk for a good reason.

Boncuk

Originally Posted by Pommie

Well, for the first time in ages I had to log in. Something broke.

You can't stay permanently connected to a forum like this, the cookie system used has a maximum connected time (which is a LOT), but you have to reconnect once a year or so.

Originally Posted by Pommie

Well, I do stay permanently connected on many others. Are you saying that this will happen every year? It didn't last year. How come many posters are having this problem at the same time. Guess they must have all joined on the same day. I call bullshit.

I haven't had to reconnect on here recently, but I certainly have to periodically - and 'possibly' yearly.

One of the install options on PHPBB allows you to specify the timeout delay, but doesn't allow a permanent connection - I always set it to the maximum.

I don't know what the situation on this software is though?.

I've just checked on PHPBB, and there's a setting:

Code:

Automatic login key expiry 
How long a autologin key is valid for in days if the user does not visit the board. Set to zero to disable expiry.

However, mine's set to zero, and still just required me to log in

I'm sure there's something about cookies expiring?, is it perhaps a setting on our PC's?.

Originally Posted by Pommie

Just had to log in again!!

Mike.

The log-on is maintained by a cookie stored on your computer, you don't have some 'clean-up' tool running do you?, that clears the cookies.

Originally Posted by Pommie

Just had to log in again!!

Mike.

I ran into a similar problem a few months back, I had to re login each time I visited the site. I reported it to Electromaster and he kindly corrected the problem. It was some sort of database problem.