Why does WW2 log you out after a certain time?

Can I change this? Just wrote a long post with links etc & I lost it all as I had been logged out

 

strange, never happened to me before

 

I get it all the time. Its usually after about 5 mins with no 'activity' on my part. When i refresh I've been logged out automatically

 

Right, second time lucky with this. I'm going to post in sections this time as I lost the whole post last time.

Although this is a WW2 forum I'm hoping you might be able to help me with information regarding my grandfather Reginald Stringer. He never spoke much about his life, either army or civvy (he was a bit of a black sheep of the family & didn't keep in contact with his own family), so we would love to be able to learn something about his army career.

We think he was in the London Scottish regiment, attached (?) to the KOYLI, but my uncle has checked the Roll and not been able to find any record of him. He was born in 1899 and supposedly signed up under age, although this could be ficticious. He was possibly in the 5th Army? and in the last big battle of WW1 which if Britain had lost they would have lost WW1, but again this could be incorrect.

I will post pictures in the following post

 

Hi Nicola,
This happened to me on numerous occasions then one of the guys pointed out that when signing in you should always tick the `remember me` box ..this works for me unless I forget!

 

Hi Nicola and others with a similar problem.

Re the advice given by Von Poop:
Good practice is to quickly select and copy the entire text of a post before hitting Go Advanced/Preview/Submit. I do this as a matter of course for medium/long posts on any forum I use now, as it means if there's a crash or hangup I can just paste the lost text back in once I've sorted the glitch. Keeps the swearing to a minimum.


I always do this, even for the shortest of posts, as quite apart from glitches that may occur during the setting out of the text, one usually wants to add a link or perhaps attach an image and it is so much easier to do this off piste, as it were.

Ron

 

Thanks for the tip Verrieres.

I've had the same problem, but now learn't to "copy" my text before hitting the "post" button (keeps my swearing to a minimum also Adam!).

 

Simple solution: compose your posts in Wordpad and then copy/paste. Wordpad transfers them in .rtf so no formatting is lost and you can then add any necessary code tags simply by highlighting the URL or text and clicking the appropriate icon in the reply screen.

 

Good practice is to quickly select and copy the entire text of a post before hitting Go Advanced/Preview/Submit. I do this as a matter of course for medium/long posts on any forum I use now, as it means if there's a crash or hangup I can just paste the lost text back in once I've sorted the glitch. Keeps the swearing to a minimum.

~A
I do too. Ounce of prevention and the like.

I've had to retype long missives before. It is exasperating.

Simple solution: compose your posts in Wordpad and then copy/paste.

If you use Windows, your resident plain text program is Notepad, which lives under 'Accessories'. Though to be honest - cut & copy is a tad less fiddly than composing externally.

To me, Notepad is the better option when copying/pasting to the forum.

Nicola, all you have to do when you type your last period (or full stop), is to hit Ctrl A, then Ctrl C and it is copied. If you want to wear a belt with your suspenders, open Notepad and put your cursor there, then hit Ctrl V to paste it in Notepad, before you send it.

 

I don't have any problems at all with getting unlogged against my will, I have no recollection of anything of the sort for months and months despite my quirky Vodaphone connection. I suppose my sunny Weltanschauung is absorbed by the ethereal waves that bring WW2Talk into my notebook

 

You're so lucky. Today. quite apart from losing a lengthy reply, I was logged out in the time between looking at a pic on one post and a pic on the very next post. I have belonged to another forum for years without this problem and I wonder why the software on this one (and it's not the only one like this) cannot cope!

If the subjects were not so interesting, I would not bother.

Chris

 

I never have problems with being logged out, and I never do a long post directly "now" without copying before I press submit.

Once bitten twice shy!

 

I never have problems with being logged out, and I never do a long post directly "now" without copying before I press submit.

Once bitten twice shy!

Nor I, even with the "Remember Me" box checked.

 

Would't it be so much nicer if the "Remember me" box were replaced with a "Forget me not" one?

 

Ive never had this problem crop up before either.

 

You're so lucky. Today. quite apart from losing a lengthy reply, I was logged out in the time between looking at a pic on one post and a pic on the very next post. I have belonged to another forum for years without this problem and I wonder why the software on this one (and it's not the only one like this) cannot cope!

If the subjects were not so interesting, I would not bother.

Chris

Hello Chris
also if your penning a large piece I would copy ( highlight and then ctl c) it as you go along just in case



regards
Clive

 

Log In bombs out all the time even before you have time to slurp a coffee in between sentences.

Only recently learnt to Copy and Paste but I had got to the stage where I was not going to bother posting anything!

Why can't it be made clearer to the Rookie like me that Copy Paste is essential.

I am not bothering Copy/paste this time - so here goes