What’s with the 2 weeks?

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April 25, 2005

What’s with the “Remember me for 2 weeks” that’s appearing on login pages? 37signals is keen on 2 weeks. Symphony uses 2 weeks too, I seem to recall GMail doing the same, but there is no specified time now, so I might be mistaken.

I know about login cookies and all that, but I wonder why exactly 2 weeks? Why not longer?

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Rasmus April 25, 2005

Gmail did indeed use two weeks as well. I don't know what sort of reasoning lies behind it though, but I can imagine it has something to do with a notion that storing passwords permanently is A Bad Thing, or that users are more inclined to forget their password if they never, ever have to type it in.

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