This happens every 2-3 days. I'm pretty sick of it. I am silently logged out of the site, often in the middle of a session. I don't realize anything is wrong until I try to reply to a comment.
Getting logged back in means abandoning pretty much all the pages I have open at the moment.
I'm an IE9 user mostly, but this happens to me constantly in any other browser too. I can switch to FF for a few days and see the same thing.
It's tiresome to the point that I don't want to contribute anymore. I get logged out like that and I sometimes just don't say anything for 3-4 days.
How many other people get silently logged out? How often does it turn you off completely from what you were doing? See, what happens is I get logged out, I have to log back in, and of course I lose my place in whatever diary I was in. Then I get bored and bummed out, and I go and do something else.
So, just FYI whoever is in charge of that piece of code: you are driving traffic away from the site.
Just to clarify for some of the people who want to be helpful.
My job title is Consulting Systems Programmer. My specialty is client/desktop. 12 years ago, I was in charge of the managed desktop initiative at my company. We deployed Windows 2000 locked-down with software distribution. Totally rewrote the desktop support model.
Last year I got the VDI project, which is AGAIN a total rewrite of the desktop model here where I work. That means there is not a single corner of this system that I didn't configure myself. I created the Windows 7 image I am using. I wrote the GPO for it. I configured IE for it. I am the administrator for all 3 major infrastructure pieces that go into creating this image. This is NOT someone else using my computer (they can't), some group policy or script in the background (I would know, all those things have to be created by me), or any other client-end activity. I literally own it all and would know if that kind of thing was going on.
Since others report spotty results, I have to assume it is a bug and I have to assume it has something to do with connectivity. I'm coming out of a fairly secure environment using an ironport proxy. I wonder if Kos sees my client as being the same from moment to moment.
At any rate, intersting discussion but ultimately I don't have the right tools to see what is really going on.