XF 2.3 cookie logout time

[island]

When I'm visiting various xenforo forums that I check in on from time to time but go more than a month between visits, I often find myself logged out despite clicking the remember me button. I wonder if people are less tolerant of this now.
Is there a way to increase the login cookie time so a member doesn't get logged out even if they haven't visited in some time?

 

[Chromaniac]

this post might give some insight. it is not easy to change as an admin. i doubt things have changed since this post.

Post in thread 'Session timeout value adjust'

Apr 17, 2017

If a user clicks "Stay logged in" then the cookie is set for 30 days. So that should be sufficient.

The session lifetime for an Admin login is only 60 minutes, though it increases to 24 hours if debug mode is enabled for the admin.

That's not really easily changeable without editing the code directly, or using an add-on (I'm not sure if one exists).

That said, we'd generally not recommend increasing the admin session timeout. Simply, you do not want to increase the chance of an admin leaving himself logged in somewhere he shouldn't and risking someone gaining unauthorised access to the...

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