Signing in for 8 hours instead of 2 weeks...

LegacyUser

Wendi Stephens said: I notice that when I sign in to Family Search that I have the option of staying signed in for two weeks. Since I work on a laptop (and even if I only worked on a desktop) I don't want to be signed in for that long. However, there are many days that I stop several times throughout my day to work a few minutes (or hours) and then work on something else in my home or yard. I've often thought that it would be nice to have an option of signing in for eight hours. That way if I'm basically home for the day, I don't have to sign in every time I start to work on my tree again. Thank you for an amazing site!

LegacyUser

Jordi Kloosterboer said: Why do you not want to stay signed in for 2 weeks? If I could, I would stay signed in indefinitely.

LegacyUser

David Newton said: Except you don't stay signed in for two weeks.

What actually happens is that for two weeks you are automatically signed back in after the 20 minute activity timeout has kicked. Not the same thing at all.

LegacyUser

Christina Sachs Wagner said: Me, too!

Chuck Fuller_1

Please, please, please, do something about this 20-minute timeout. I have been reviewing a lot of entries in my database recently. To be "idle", i.e., reviewing data, for 20 minutes is not out of the ordinary. As a result, I am continually having to click through a Capcha and login again (if I've neglected to check the 2-week box). Financial institutions with millions of dollars to guard don't employ such Draconian measures! Please consider implementing a less-stringent control with a severity level to match the content behind it.

davidnewton2

https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/493379#Comment_493379

It's security theatre: doing something that's essentially useless at best to appear "secure".

What's proper security? Locking a computer if you leave it whilst in a public place. That's operating system level and nothing to do with an individual website. They will not listen when told this however and continue to insist on logging people out for "inactivity" even if they have been merely browsing in another window of the same web browser. No warning. No countdown. Just a nasty surprise when returning to the window and seeing partially completed work vanish.

genthusiast

Just a nasty surprise when returning to the window and seeing partially completed work vanish.

@davidnewton2

Are you seeing such regularly?

With over 20 years working in FamilySearch platform - I can't recall having lost data entry (normal editing of tree profiles) - ever.

However - I recently lost editability of highlights in the 'new edit every field' records indexing/transcription solution currently being rolled out. If other regularly experience tree profile data loss - that would be new to me...

davidnewton2

It's not really a problem for me very often at all. Most annoying thing I find is getting partway through attaching a multi-person source and then having it decide to engage in the security theatre on me. That's annoying but it generally doesn't cause major issues.

It's those who write long notes or similar prose who get the nasty surprises. Since I generally don't use those fields (more often than not actually deleting a lot of notes which are just spurious junk from GEDCOM files) I don't have the problem. It definitely dors occur however.