[OSM-talk] I big jump in new users and user activity.

[Richard Fairhurst]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Later I had a situation where
> Potlatch continually complained that I wasn't logged in while the
> screen still showed my user name in the top right corner - session
> expiry perhaps?

Were you using the same login on two machines? Potlatch uses the same  
token as the rest of the Rails site, rather than a JOSM-like separate  
auth - the SWF doesn't even know your username or password, it just  
has the token. So if you started a session on one machine, then one on  
another, the second instance would effectively log the first one out;  
and because the Rails site doesn't do a AJAXy periodic refresh for the  
user name at the top right (after all, why would it?), that wouldn't  
change.

> - On another occasion I would have liked a short
> session expiry, when out of the corner of my eye I spotted some
> visitors having fun at one of our machines, and suddenly realised
> they had Potlatch open... and it was NOT in play mode ;-) I explained
> to them that they were just editing our database which they found
> a bit hard to believe.

You shouldn't have to explain, it says it on the splash screen[1]...  
unless you've ticked "Don't show this again", that is. ;)

cheers
Richard

[1] localisation welcome!