Congratulations lovely!!!

Great effort, Krystal motivates us all in unique ways!

Treat yourself to something fun to help that offline social life, which your mum says is lacking ❤️😜

Quote by kistinspencil

After a hiatus, I uploaded six images today. After 4 hours, I am still waiting for them to appear in my Media or the Gallery. Several pages worth have been added to the latter, all dated long after mine were posted. This is so frustrating.

Out of interest of narrowing down a reason, what kind of device and connection are you trying from?

A few weeks ago, I had delay uploading from my Iphone, but my Samsung tablet worked okay via Wifi and was there pretty rapidly.

In another scenario, it took a while to upload whilst I was running other data-eating apps in the background.

It could be due to device or cellular/Wifi signal strength and or speed, rather than Lush systems,

If it is Lush, it could just bad pot luck that you are uploading at the same time as someone whom is uploading pics/gifs/videos in bulk numbers.

Well done Sprite!!

That was a runaway winner for me!!

Quote by WannabeWordsmith

I'm with noll. It's not a feature. It's a detractor.

Kicking someone out of a chatroom that has limited capacity for chat slots is one thing to give everyone a fair shot at conversing. Kicking people out of the site entirely and soft logging back in via cookie or requiring credentials to frequently be re-entered is a massive pain, and unnecessary.

In my limited capacity as user and with enough knowledge of client server architecture, since it seems it's not universal across browsers or session length, I'd call it a bug.

I am a backend developer, and there's no extra server load required to keep a session open. Every request from browser to server is stateless. In Georgia's analogy, the garage door is closed after every request. The session cookie that gets passed back determines access.

Incidentslly, user activity load is generally determined by making a request: either via discrete user interaction (page click/refresh) or a push/pull to send PM/chat data to an active session.

You are one of the better Story Mods;
Can you read back through and tell me where I have once said it is a feature which Lush has intended and that it is not a bug?

I agree 100% that it is a bug, but personally don't mind as it fortunately only seems to happen to me when I idle. Leading me to suggest that Lush should look at bringing in auto logout as a feature of the site.

Noll actually agreed that it could be a good feature for members to be able to opt-in for auto logout.

I work in Telecoms & Network Services, so you are not the only person from a tech background on this thread.
My Admin accounts at work logout every 15 minutes without activity or if my machine is manually locked before then.

As a backend developer, I would like to assume that your business' Admin/Developer accounts auto-logout, yes?
(If not, that should be addressed as a matter of urgency by your department as a security risk.)

It has been said: "but Lush is basically Social Media and that Facebook & don't log you out" (words to that effect).
I guarentee it would be more embarrasing, intrusive and potentially even damaging to our personal relationships if someone was to gain access to our Lush than Facebook, , Twitter etc..

General accounts? opt-in would be cool and I think a lot of members would use it, considering how many of our partners don't seem to know about Lush.

However, our Mod & Admin accounts should definitely auto-logoff through inactivity as standard.

Security & privacy have to take priority over convenience, every single time.
That shouln't need to be a debate with someone also following a career in technology.

Quote by noll
But the main reason why these are non-arguments IMO is that Lush admins already acknowledged that it's not a feature, but a bug they're looking into.

I have not said once that it is a feature which Lush has intended, and have actually sympathised with the inconsistencies as per above.

I am saying it should be a feature Lush thinks about on future profile updates.

On a site that gets hundreds of thousands of hits a day, accurate information as to how many people are logged in and actually active at one time could prove valuable with progressing the site.

Those that sit there doing nothing because they are sleeping or watching Eastenders are then going to be causing inaccurate data.

Thousands of other successful global technologogical enterprises, and even other services similar to Lush have logon session timeouts with regards to inactivity.

It is something Lush had on the V1 chat service and is something which should, in my educated opinion, be rolled out site-wide.

Especially to those of us Mods & Admin with site administration tools at our service.

Quote by dlcalguy

Would you design a garage door that comes down on you as you're half-way in? That's the problem some people are having. No, of course you wouldn't.

That isn't the argument I am making.
As you can see from my following comment yesterday, I understand the frustrations, if you had bothered to read the whole thread.

Quote by Georgia_27_8
We don't tend keep our private sexual fantasies and experiences on Facebook (don't actually have FB) or though lol.

I do get where people are coming from however as it is inconsistently happening across multiple platforms and sections of the site.
That is the only reason the bug has been bugging me. (Pun not initially intended )

I couldn't care less about session timeout if I am inactive though.
But it has fortunately only ever happened to me whilst I have been inactive and not flicking between pages/comments etc, so I have a completely different experience of it to you all.

I do think that session timeout due to inactivity is something Lush should to look into though on the next profile update.

On V1 when there were limits on the number of members in a Chatroom, we had session timeouts where if we were inactive for X amount of time, we were auto-kicked so that someone else could enter.

Quote by WannabeWordsmith
But I wouldn't expect it to log me out of the site and dump me to the front page too. Maybe that's an unreasonable expectation.

Maybe it is just me, but I find this an incredibly logical thing to do from a technical point of view.

1) From a members POV:
As mentioned above, it saves data, it saves power, adds a security feature.

2) From the sites POV:
If people are idle for X hours, they get logged out.
It will give the Dev team accurate reporting info as to how many members are spending what amount of time online.
Reduced session time = reduced server activity = reduced server power requirement = reduced running costs (essential given the cost of energy in todays market) which can then be spent elsewhere on the site.

Honestly, where is the downside to any of that, other than it not being convenient?


Would you leave the garage door open at night because you are driving to work the next morning?
No, of course you wouldn't.

Quote by WannabeWordsmith
Imagine if Facebook or logged you out after half an hour, or even an hour. There'd be uproar!

We don't tend keep our private sexual fantasies and experiences on Facebook (don't actually have FB) or though lol.

I do get where people are coming from however as it is inconsistently happening across multiple platforms and sections of the site.
That is the only reason the bug has been bugging me. (Pun not initially intended )

I couldn't care less about session timeout if I am inactive though.
But it has fortunately only ever happened to me whilst I have been inactive and not flicking between pages/comments etc, so I have a completely different experience of it to you all.

I do think that session timeout due to inactivity is something Lush should to look into though on the next profile update.

On V1 when there were limits on the number of members in a Chatroom, we had session timeouts where if we were inactive for X amount of time, we were auto-kicked so that someone else could enter.

Quote by WannabeWordsmith
Logs me out regularly on both desktop (Firefox on Mac) and phone (Via) after approx 40 mins of inactivity or when there's an update pushed. The latter is understandable, the former isn't.

Both scenarios are completely understandable.
If you are inactive for 40 minutes your progress/changes should absolutely be saved, but you simply don't need to be logged in.

As a techie, I would be more than happy to be auto-logged out due to inactivity after 15 minutes, let alone 40!
Not only does it save data and battery, it also provides an additional security feature for if someone was able to get into your device without your permission.

Considering a lot of us are on Lush in secret, I am disappointed that this isn't actually a standard site feature.
Especially for those of us with site administrative tools at our service.

Out of interest, what devices are you all using?

I use both my Samsung Tab S8 and Iphone.

My primary device, the Tab, has only ever logged me out four or five times maximum during almost a month that this thread has been live. I don't use my Iphone enough to really notice it.

I would like to assume that's because I was idle for about 15 minutes whilst doing other things off of that device and completely ignored Lush at the time and it restricts background data when not in use.

Pounding pavements

Quote by TantricHeart

So just to clarify, does the Silver option include PMs in the chatrooms. The popup window on the right here says

'x Full Chatroom access' so I presumed not.

Plus there is no mention of access to Groups! Since my Silver membership expired a few days ago I no longer have access to any Groups I am subscribed to. It would be helpful if this area of what one does/doesn't get in the Silver membership was a little more transparent.

Yes, Silver definitely does allow PM in chatrooms.
The "x" is in relation to the Global Chatroom service which only Gold/Platinum have access to.

I am wondering how it is only Tuesday?
I am not mentally ready for Kickboxing tomorrow night!

I have showered with worse looking people.
wouldn't really want to slip though, that hurts.

tie?

Quote by bakerboy

I have a similar problem 😕 uploaded pictures end up correctly in my " misc album" but I cannot get them " dragged, cut and pasted or copied" into the post. Any idea whay or maybe how ?

Were they first shared into Forum/Lushmail?
Without selecting the Misc album whilst uploading, only Forum/Lushmail images should end up in Misc

Just had four chocolate covered Oreos and nobody is home to judge me or say shit about it

Quote by Seeker4

I work in IT. If I let a bug like that linger for a year, my job would be on the line. And "we'll take care of it" wouldn't cut it after that long. The response would be "when?"

I also work in IT.

The ToD stamps here on Lush for the things which legally matter, are correct.

Any user-selected data which does not impede; operational, reporting or legal requirements will not put jobs on the line at yours or any other organisation.

As someone working in IT, maybe you are able to provide a helpful suggestion to assist with a resolution, rather than throw shade for the sake of it?

I am STILL at work.

12 hours down and am about to log off and drive home,
Then log back on after dinner and carry on for another few hours...

BBQ at my parents...

I couldn't tell you exactly what I had 🤷🏻‍♀️

I am "cross-dominant".

Left hand:

Write, brush my teeth, hold my phone and fork and also punch with my left hand.

Right hand:

Write (but not as well), play golf, brush my hair, open doors and 😈

When running I also push off with my right foot, but kick with my left.

stranger & cute

The average UK penis is between 5ft 10" & 6ft tall

Quote by PJH

Thank you for your advice/interest. I will raise a ticket because I do not want to start losing further 'privileges' if the system believes that I am NOT a Gold member.

Not a problem.
Your membership that I can see does look to be a gold one, so hopefully there is just a glitch in the banner message on the home page!

Quote by PJH

Year I believe-it cost me £40.59 on 22nd April.

If that was a quarter is annual Gold more than £150?

Would be a shame as the loss of being able to chat one-to-one to non-members makes the site less enjoyable to me anyway.

No, that sounds about right given conversion rates.
Have you tried a helpdesk ticket?

That may be quicker than waiting for an Admin to hopefully see this tread

Quote by PJH

Why have I just had a 'Gold Upgrade Now' banner twice appear when I paid for Gold Membership in April this year please?

Edit-THREE times although I expect it will appear several more times

Do you recall if you paid for the whole year, or quarterly?

Uhh, we lost Doug.

Salmon fillet with a salad and couscous.

Back to the boring life after holiday