Is the log-in timeout configurable?
For about the seventeenth time, I've lost a significant amount of work. :-(
My entries tend to be longer essays, not simple blog-type links with a few lines of comment. I write them in the "create a story" skin. I'm not a fast typist, and I tend to think a lot in between sentences.
So here's what happens - I write the entry, click submit, and get presented with the login page. The entire entry is lost.
I've started to work around this by copying the entry to RAM before I hit the submit button, then repasting it after the login, and/or saving frequently while I'm composing, but quite frankly, when I'm on a roll and the words are flowing, I don't always remember to do this.
I love this blogging software - I sing it's praises to everyone I know. I think the developers here are the Goddam Bomb.
But this one "feature" makes me wanna cry and tear my hair out.
Can you make the time-out period configurable, and/or save a submitted entry in a buffer pending a successful re-login?
bov
push the browser's back button, when you get the login-page. Usually the created story well be there again.
Chronistin
...on the browser's cache settings, as far as i know. for me this usually works in IE, but not in opera. I made it a habit to copy the text to the clipboard before submitting - not only because of the timeout, but also because my connection seems to vanish from time to time.
mld
The cache is set up in IE to check every time the browser is started. What should it be set to to save a submitted story?
Chronistin
on my machine, the setting is "automatic".