From b3051996dc50b0d347bf36b20647f827368b9255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Covington <danielc@kentcommunications.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:12:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Increase flash message display timeout to 8 seconds

The success/error banners (e.g. "Check your email for a link") were
dismissing after only 3 seconds, too quick to read comfortably.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 public/web.config                     | 2 +-
 public/web.config.production.template | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/public/web.config b/public/web.config
index 844067f..fed2946 100644
--- a/public/web.config
+++ b/public/web.config
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     <add key="Environment" value="Development" />
 
     <!-- Flash message display duration in milliseconds -->
-    <add key="FlashMessageTimeout" value="3000" />
+    <add key="FlashMessageTimeout" value="8000" />
 
     <!-- 404 error page redirect countdown in seconds -->
     <add key="Error404RedirectSeconds" value="5" />
diff --git a/public/web.config.production.template b/public/web.config.production.template
index e74e448..9705bf1 100644
--- a/public/web.config.production.template
+++ b/public/web.config.production.template
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <add key="Environment" value="Production" />
 
     <!-- Flash message display duration in milliseconds -->
-    <add key="FlashMessageTimeout" value="3000" />
+    <add key="FlashMessageTimeout" value="8000" />
 
     <!-- 404 error page redirect countdown in seconds -->
     <add key="Error404RedirectSeconds" value="5" />