Losing My Identity--or at Least my Login...

[carbogast]

I'll give it a try. If this post goes through, I'm on a different machine and using Safari.
(No problem posting, so I'll move to the problematic machine and give it a try).

[Snorlax]

Can I log in from my main computer? If you see this, the answer is yes.
Can I edit it? If you see this, the answer is yes.

[iiipopes]

I'm done. The frustration is too great. I even had to re-log-in to post this. I refuse to re-log-in on every thread I want to look at. When you fix it, send me an email. Until then, it has been nice knowing you.

[Snorlax]

Still not working here. I can see my login, but had to
log in again to post.

[Snorlax]

Seems to wipe out when I go back to the main forum screen, and sometimes when I try to post.

[John Morgan]

Seems messed up to me. I logged in earlier this evening because I became logged out after months of being permanently logged in. Probably because of what Dave did. When I logged in earlier, there were no new posts that I could see even though it was apparent that posts were made today. I then closed my browser window which is how I get out of the Forum. I just came back, and I was logged off. I logged on, then went to this topic. I was going to post and found that I had been logged off. So while in this post, I logged on again and am making this post.

I had to log in repeatedly to make this post.

[Clayton M.]

Just so that there is other feedback; I exclusively have used my phone to visit this forum and have not ever had an issue as that which has been described.

[davewerden]

John Morgan / Snorlax,

Did you click the "Remember me?" checkbox? I need that bit of information to report this to the software vendor.

FWIW, all is working well for me, so it would seem the fix did not hurt those who weren't having trouble, nor did it seem to help those who were having trouble.

Thanks.

[davewerden]

Oh, and so I can provide better feedback to tech support, please let me know what browser(s) you are using IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS.

Thanks!

[davewerden]

FWIW, one user reported having trouble before using the private message system. He says that problem has gone away after the fix. So I guess the fix worked for some, but not all.

[John Morgan]

Dave,

I have never had a problem in the 5-6 years I have been here. I always stayed logged in. I am now having problems since you made your change. I am using IE version 11.

I don't remember if I checked the remember me box on login, however, this morning I did after I got logged out right after logging in. As I said above, I had never experienced any problems before now.

This is my second edit. Yesterday if I tried this, I would be logged out. So, after checking the remember me box, I seem to be staying logged in.

[davewerden]

Dave,

I have never had a problem in the 5-6 years I have been here. I always stayed logged in. I am now having problems since you made your change. I am using IE version 11.

I don't remember if I checked the remember me box on login, however, this morning I did after I got logged out right after logging in. As I said above, I had never experienced any problems before now.

This is my second edit. Yesterday if I tried this, I would be logged out. So, after checking the remember me box, I seem to be staying logged in.

Thanks, John. Sorry for the runaround. This is really getting confusing!

I am currently logged in with IE11 without checking the Remember box.

[RickF]

Dave,

(snip) Yesterday if I tried this, I would be logged out. So, after checking the remember me box, I seem to be staying logged in.

When I logged in yesterday after the change, I logged in but forgot to check ‘remember me’. Just going to any discussion thread I noticed I was logged out. So I logged back in but checked ‘remember me’. Since then it’s been fine for me. I’m using FF with latest update.

[ghmerrill]

So I guess one question is what exactly "remember me" does and so why that shouldn't be turned on as the default?

This does start to smell like some sort of "design bug" (aka "oversight") in the board software.

[davewerden]

So I guess one question is what exactly "remember me" does and so why that shouldn't be turned on as the default?

The checkbox tells the forum to create a cookie on your computer's drive (as most sites do). But without the check, it will only have the cookie in the browser's floating memory, so when you close it and come back in, the cookie will be gone. Some people prefer that to be the case, such as when they use a library computer (although the log out link will take care of that need).

This does start to smell like some sort of "design bug" (aka "oversight") in the board software.

Not to me, because the software has not been changed for well over a year (and that was only an update). It seems more likely to me that the browsers have tightened up the rules about the memory (floating) storage. They have tightened many other things for security purposes, and that is the only thing I can think of that makes sense when things that used to work just stop "at random." But I hope the vendor of the software has a solution.

FWIW, I just logged in again with no checkbox. I was OK until I navigated to the main site and came back to the forum. I was no longer logged in. So I just logged in yet again without the checkbox. I'll copy this text in case I get kicked off!