Hi I impersonated my alternate account on my forum today to do a quick test of a feature i did for the forum and it said Impersonating user 15 minutes left but i’ve never seen it before and nor have i seen a setting for this. have i missed a discussion on this? if there’s a setting can i get the …

There is a hidden experimental_impersonation_time_limit_minutes setting set to 15 minutes.

[image] How would i find it on my forum? I want to work a little with the limit

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It’s a hidden setting. You need to enable it from the rails console ./launcher enter app rails c SiteSetting.experimental_impersonation_time_limit_minutes = 30 # or whatever exit

I don’t have acsess so i most likley need to ask the owner

I am guessing you could add the last ne to the app.yml as well?

yes but you should probably be looking to change the site setting instead, you need to rebuild to apply that which is a lot more annoying than visiting the rails console

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) 27 مايو 2026، 10:27م 2

هناك إعداد مخفي يُدعى experimental_impersonation_time_limit_minutes مضبوط على 15 دقيقة.

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