One small change to Geekzone frontpage and Geekzone Live... Let's see who spots it.

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trig42

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Reply # 768802 25-Feb-2013 11:22
freitasm: There's been no change in the way the login works. If you don't have auto login set when you login for the first time then it may log out during that time, but not because of the change. Maybe, but it never did it before today. I could stay logged in all day (requesting updates and clogging up your servers) and it would stay logged in. Now, after 5 minutes, the updates are blank, and when I refresh the page, I am logged out.

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Reply # 768806 25-Feb-2013 11:26
you'll be logged out because there is no AJAX call keeping your session alive on the server. so since your browser isn't talking to the server every minute, your session dies on the server and when you refresh the page the server creates a new session with you logged out. www.reven.co.nz

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Reply # 768807 25-Feb-2013 11:27
As I said, if you don't have auto-login the session should end in 20 minutes. If the refresh happens then the session won't die. The alternative is to have auto-login box checked when you login and that will keep it alive all the time, regardless of timeout. Mauricio Freitas (Geekzone Admin, Devil's Advocate, my blog, technology disclosure, my tweets, Web Performance Optimization) Geekzone Price comparison \| Amazon Kindle order page \| How to get the best out of Geekzone \| New Zealand IT Jobs \| Geekzone News \| Jinglebugs

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Reply # 770115 25-Feb-2013 21:22
If its only people with multiple tabs open, could you have it just load in the tab that last had focus, and all others get ignored till they get focus and then take over the refreshing? Richard rich.ms

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Reply # 770318 26-Feb-2013 10:29
I have Geekzone Live open pretty much all day in a separate window so noticed it immediately. That yellow banner is hard to miss :o It would be nice if there was an option to enable/disable the out of focus refresh...

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Reply # 770679 26-Feb-2013 18:57
A very annoying side effect is that the timeout ends up causing all your read flags to be automatically reset... making read flag usefulness pretty much non-existant. contentsofsignaturemaysettleduringshipping

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Reply # 771890 28-Feb-2013 19:27
Not a real biggie but it's slightly annoying, I used to have this open at work (and the computer is running IE7 ugh) - which means it slightly broke the auto-update feature. Michael Murphy [Twitter] [Last.fm] [IPv6 Sage] Anything written up there is my own view on life, the universe and everything.

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Reply # 775612 6-Mar-2013 12:33
Whilst I understand the need for this it is slightly annoying from the below perspective I have dual monitors at work so generally I'm focused on the primary screen, the secondary screen usually contains Chrome and other stuff. Sometimes I'll spot a topic, I might not have seen during my initial glance, click on it to read it however now when I move the mouse and it focuses on the Geekzone the topic disappears Albeit trivial, if the topic isn't obvious I've no idea which sub forum it's in

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