# Experience when impersonation is terminated automatically after some time

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/experience-when-impersonation-is-terminated-automatically-after-some-time/402252
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** impersonate
**Created:** [May 5, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experience-when-impersonation-is-terminated-automatically-after-some-time/402252 "2026-05-05T22:32:17Z")
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### Author: ![ted](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ted/32/283882_2.png) [@ted](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ted)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experience-when-impersonation-is-terminated-automatically-after-some-time/402252/6 "2026-05-07T02:59:28Z")

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> [@martin](#):
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> Also I’m not sure of the original intent of the timer, was it to make sure admins weren’t staying logged in too long generally to other people’s accounts? Would having the timer be delayed indefinitely go against that? Not sure…

Yeah. This predates me, so hard to infer. But since the duration is configurable, maybe better we don’t mess with this. 😬

> [@martin](#):
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> If we can figure that out then of course I’m happy to hand this off to you if you’re happy to make a PR 🙂

I can start with improving the UX for what’s there already with better messaging. 🫡

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