Timeout Question

dawidajm

I was wondering if it was possible to change the timeout period that a user remains logged in per forum or if this is something that is globally set on freeflarum.com for all forums?

SKevo

dawidajm according to https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30270, unless you are using a “remember me” token, sessions are valid for 1 hour by default. This is hardcoded in Flarum, and FreeFlarum has no control over this nor does it modify the lifespan of the tokens for forums globally.

There is an extension that automatically refreshes these tokens, prolonging the session: https://flarum.org/extension/davwheat/session-keepalive. You can request this extension inExtension Request for a chance for it to be added to FreeFlarum, if this is something that you want

dawidajm

SKevo thank you for the info.

If remember me tokens are being used how does that change the behavior? Will it be longer than an hour at that point?

SKevo

dawidajm I am not sure how exactly Flarum handles this under the hood. I assume that “remember me token” means checking the “Remember Me” checkbox when logging in, and in that case, the user should stay logged in practically forever (in reality, I imagine the logout timeout is just really high)