Can these forums NOT log me out in the middle of a reply.

Question

This is becoming a daily event for me.
My work flow currently is something like this:
1) At the beginning of my work day, I review my e-mails and RSS reader for new messages to the Forums I monitor.
2) I'll usually find a couple to whichI feel I can contribute support.
3) I'll click on a link to fire up a browsers for a reply, since the e-mail reply feature is too buggy for my taste and there is yet any other type of replacement for NTTP type interactions.
4) Since it is usually about 24 hours since I last logged into the Forums, I am usually still logged in.  So I click a "Reply" link and bring up the form to post a message.
5) During the time I am composing the message my 24 hour login period expires.  When done typing, I click the "Post Message" control and boom.  I am told I can not post a message.  That I must login again.
Fine, I need to login again, but that message that I may have spent quite some effort composing is GONE!  I can not click the back button to retrieve it because of the DHTML nature of the message form.  The login process does not remember my post.  It is just gone and I have to re-compose it after I login again.
This is just a really poor user experience.

Answer 1

curt y wrote:
There seems to be no set pattern for this.  Sometimes I am logged out during the day, especially if I disconnect from internet.
But many days when I start my computer in the morning then visit bookmarked web page I am still logged in.  That is after about 11 hours of having compter off.
So how does this compute?
My own situation regarding logouts is a carbon copy of the above. With the exception that I have been logged out several times while writing a message, which I would think is a clear sign that I had been active for the last few minutes (no, I don't go out for lunch in the middle of writing a message). Last time this happened was earlier today, and there were changes in what happened afterwards which I think deserve reporting.
When I finished writing my message and clicked on gthe Post Message button, I got this:
I therefore used the Login/Register button to re-login, and when I finished, I got this:
Please note that:
1, My name is in both Welcomes.
2. The first error message is asking me for a title, but there is one.
3. The second error message (not shown, at the bottom of the message window) said something in the sense that I couldn't post a message without any text/content.
I assumed that everything was lost, so I closed Explorer and went to do something else. About half an hour later, I came back, opened the same thread, and clicked on the Reply button of the same message I had been replying, and was surprised to get this:
I naturately clicked on the Use Recovered button. Unfortunately, this time I was not so lucky, for I only recovered about the first half of my message. Which was of course much better than nothing.