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Originally Posted by DaleDe
It will not time out if you select keep me logged in/Remember me. It will solve your original problem. Why not just try it instead of arguing.
Dale
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Because I DONT log in until/unless I need to make a reply. Today, I read (what I wanted to read from ) the whole search results (got to the last page 64 minutes after the search had been generated.) I didn't log in until I go ready to reply to this post.
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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Darqref, can you describe in more detail what happens when the search results "time out"? What time interval are we talking about?
Update: Search results are cached in order to conserve server resources. The downside of this is that search results can appear out of order if a thread is updated in the interim. For this reason the results expire after one hour.
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I click on the "Today's Posts" link, usually when I'm NOT logged in. Only occasionally, when I have replied to something on the front page, am I logged in before this point. This generates several pages of threads which have posts/replies generated in the last 24 hours. Today, that was 16 pages of results.
Then, I proceed to page through the results, reading any thread that interests me. Sometimes, I post a reply, which requires I log in, most times not. In either case, I continue following the search results. When the timeout occurs, I click to go to the next page of results, and get only a box saying (approximately) "there are no results matching this search."
The fact that the results expire is what I'm talking about - I understand that posts will continue to occur after I've generated the search results. It's just that when the expiration occurs, I frequently give up for the night, instead of re-generating the results and scanning for ones that I haven't read that I want to read. For most of the last 2 years, this has only happened when I get involved in a long thread (usually one of the copyright threads, but the first time I tried to catch up on the rants was ugly). The rush of new users over the last couple of months corresponding with the release of several new reader models has made it more likely that enough interesting posts will occur to run over the search result expiration.
If I could set a personal setting that would keep the result valid for longer while I was logged in, I might change my habits to log in more frequently.
In the mean time, I'll probably try a variation of Marc's suggestion to get each page of results downloaded and open before they expire. But it makes me think, instead of just starting to read. oww, my brain hurts.
edit: after reading this again, I could also see that an improved timeout message might help, at least the first couple of times it happens.