The Nexus session logs you out sooner than it used to

You are being signed out sooner. The idle window before the market drops your session has been pulled back, and a tab left open in the background will not survive as long as it used to.

The change is not in the login form. The change is in how long the session lives after a successful login. Nothing on the screen tells you the number has changed. It shows up as a login page where you expected a wallet page.

How it read before

A logged-in tab used to survive for hours. You could open the market, log in, walk away, come back after a long break, and find the account page still where you left it. Refreshing worked. Clicking around worked. Only closing the browser or actively logging out ended the session.

A lot of readers had built their habit around that. They would leave a tab open on the vendor page they were watching and check back through the day. The session was in the background and it held.

How it reads now

Walk away from a live session and come back after a shorter break, and you will find the login form. Nothing changed about your account. The token that kept you signed in has expired. A fresh sign-in gets you back inside.

The market does not print a message that says the session expired. It just shows the login page. That is where most of the confusion lives. If you were away long enough to forget you had a session running, the login page reads as if you never signed in at all.

The idle timer runs on inactivity, not on wall-clock time. Refreshing the page, moving to a new tab on the same site, opening a listing, and even scrolling in some browsers all count as activity and reset the counter. If you are actively reading, the session will live a lot longer than if you tab away.

The cart timer described in cart countdown runs on its own clock and is not the same as the session idle window. A cart can empty while the session is still alive, and the session can drop while the cart still shows time.

Why this probably shifted

The most-likely reading is unattended-session risk. A long-lived tab in a browser someone else could touch is a soft way for an account to leak. A shorter idle window is the standard defence for that, and it is cheap to implement.

A second reading is server load. Every idle session still holds state somewhere. Turning them over faster clears that state. The smaller balance cache shift is consistent with a market that is trimming what it keeps in memory in general.

A third reading is anti-scraping. A stale session that survives a long browse is worth more to a script than to a human. Shortening its life narrows that gap.

What to change on your side

• Do not read a logout as a ban. It almost never is. If your credentials still work, your account is fine. Related note: session drops read as bans.
• Do not paste the address again from an untrusted place after a logout. Re-open from your saved file. The address does not change when your session does.
• Do not keep a tab open all day and expect it to hold. Close the tab when you leave and re-open it when you return.
• If your wallet number looks different after re-login, it is not that you lost balance. The market refreshes what it shows on login. Related note: smaller balance cache.
• If the rate on the checkout screen looks off after a re-login, refresh once. It updates less often than before. Related note: rate refresh slower.

What this entry is not claiming

This entry does not claim the market changed its authentication scheme. It does not claim the shorter session is a punishment on any account. It does not name the exact number of minutes; the number is not stable across all sessions and the reader should not treat any observed idle time as a promise.