Why does the Portal time out?

[AmoralPhat40oz]

I was doing work with my stash and breaking down/selling items and the portal disappeared. So I lost all that loot and my spot in the map. My short term progress has been wiped out every time. Just Because I took time to work on my stash.

WHY?????????

[Eightyeye]

It times out with the map instance, the maps stay open for roughly 8 min once you exit them, once that expires any portals close and it is reset as the servers can not handle infinite instances of maps real time, to avoid this if you know something might take a bit, make a mental note to go back into the portal and reopen a new one to reset the countdown after 5 min or so.

Interesting fact however, if you leave the map location via a portal and exit the game it will not close and will actually save the map instance until you log back in then it will begin the countdown again. you can use this to "save" a map run if you need to leave for IRL issues or emergency's.

[Danisco Gaming]

mostly around 7-10mins expire of portal