Hopefully. You'll need to be browsing round the site to keep your session active, any page should do it - the session timeout's set to 4 hours (that's 4 hours of total inactivity)
Having been thinking about this into the early hours, I came to the conclusion that you'd only been using the BBs.
With the code we put in place last week, doing this would indeed keep your session open on the appservers, however your cookie would still expire (prompting you to log in again)
We'll be fixing this today - I'll post when that code's live.
Choccie: If you mean the News slot on the right of Hil's thread header, then that is correct. The site she links to is currently reporting No News Available. If you mean something else, then send JT a stiff memo ;-)
Since the site shut down , a message keeps poping up asking me to click yes or no to this message, Downloading non-secure content from a secure Web site . every time i move about the site.
sounds like you're browsing over an HTTPS connection, you can confirm this by seeing if it says 'https://' at the beginning of the location bar. If it does, remove the 's' and press return.
We've been coding and testing another set of changes which should resolve the random logout issues that people have been having when using the bulletin boards.
When this is done, everyone will be logged out of the site automatically, but should be able to log in again straight away.
We delete all news articles older than 24 hours that aren't directly related to a stock (ie, have an epic against them) except if they're RNS articles.
If there were no forex bulletins yesterday or Saturday that would explain why searching was returning no articles.