Let autosell chests keep selling even if the person who placed it isn't online

Prior to the recent RPG update, if you placed an autosell chest, it would always sell items that went into it, even if you weren't online. For some reason now that's no longer the case; you *have* to stay online for it to sell or it will just stop, holding the items indefinitely. While it doesn't affect me specifically, this is extremely inconvenient for people who can't stay online themselves 24/7 and have others run their farms for them. Could we please have autosell chests always sell items again, regardless of whether the owner is online or not?