Bug or UX issue - automatically logging out quickly

The new site has pros and cons, and I’m on board with most if it, but man. This is a massive con: I like to open a bunch of threads and read them over the day, or over the week. But, your logout function is a disaster!

E.g. today I logged in this morning, opened about 10 threads in tabs that I wanted to read. Made it through 2-3 of them, had some work calls, come back to quickly skim the next, only to see a “You have been logged out” box with the only option “refresh”. Can’t close the box, can’t finish the thread, can’t log in w/o hitting refresh.

Refresh then takes me to the main login, I log in, and either I get an error page “you are not permitted to view this resource” OR I’m on the main menu. No returning to the thread I was on, now I have to go through the list again to see what I want to read.

Very user-unfriendly, I have much less interest in going through the effort to reread and reopen threads.

(Today is not the first or only time, it’s just the worst with 10 tabs I was looking forward to catching up on over the day, and I was logged out within just a couple of hours.)

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Same, it’s really annoying, to try to pick up a thread later and find out you’ve been logged out.

I want my bank to have an aggressive timeout, but for a hobby forum? That’s just creating an unnecessary barrier to interaction, so I find myself using the site less.

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Y’all, any of these issues, please send it to support@slowtwitch.com so they can DX.