Old requests timeouts?

Exercism Mentoring Chat
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Hi, I remember in previous forum/Slack there was a discussion what to do about old mentoring requests.
Currently I took my first in life mentoring request which was already 3months old. I made small comment there and now Iā€™m waiting for a mentee.
I suppose it will take them much time as well as they could have already lost hope to get mentoring :slight_smile:
So how much time should I give the mentee in return before I close the request if unanswered?

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Sessions without activity should auto-close after 30 days.

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Thanks for trying out mentoring :slight_smile:

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I even did a second mentoring, this time for the first timer.
They was happy of the answer and ended discussion before I have seen the second iteration, their public profile is unreachable when I was trying to check if they published the solution.

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You can always check published exercises by username. Just visit any other published solution then swap the username in the profile. It is a bit frustrating when users end discussions without actually interacting with the code review, but it does happen from time to time.

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I checked. It seems Iteration 1 was only published or I suppose there was no Iteration 2 at all. Thanks for the tip on how to check it.

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Note additional iterations still show up in the discussion even after the discussion is ended

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