I will preface this by saying that I appreciate your efforts rebuilding the site. It is so much faster and it's good to see it using
java now. I run a forum myself and I know how it is trying to work on them for free.
Anyways, I have lost my post several times (including, perhaps ironically, this one) b/c I pause and do some 'work' and come back to finish my post. Click submit, and poof, I get a login screen, whats more the back button yields a blank text area.
This is very frustrating b/c naturally it occurs when I have written a long post with lots of code and I lose it all.
In the past, I have incorporated autosaves which I don't think is necessary. IMO, the ideal solution would be to put a javascript 'pinger' that hits the server every 5 or 10 mins to keep the session active as long as the post page is open. I have done this before and will gladly offer my services for the bargain price of $5.99 / minute.
Seriously though, thanks for the site and keep up the good work!