You’d think the bug that pops up occasionally that says you have to log on when you enter the forums, even though you already ARE logged in, would be fixed by now.
Or maybe nobody cares…
Hi, Mark! Good to hear from you, even though you are obviously encountering problems. I think you may have to get a hold of customer service on this one. I have had the very odd glitch like yours, although rarely, maybe twice a year. I just log in again and it seems to be happy. Otherwise, I am having no difficulties (or ‘issues’ as the modern parlance goes…), and am unaware of this problem for other users. Right now it is the orange drop-out card-like pop-up, which I understand Dana and staff are attempting to put right. It is not supposed to keep popping when one changes pages or moves to another MR forum.
-Crandell
I only seem to get it when I change computers…like if I log in my work PC to check the forum, the next time I go on my home PC I might have to log back in - or not, doesn’t seem to always require it.
Same thing here…in fact, I just switched computers to post in this thread and it had me logging in again. I just ignore it as it happens so rarely.
It rarely happens to me, but I did notice that I had to log in over the weekend. It may be just something like a system restart at the Kalmbach end, or a 90-day timeout on accounts, active or not. Or, perhaps it had something to do with re-configuring out home office, so Iogged on from a non-typical computer.
My Comcast login has a “Keep me logged on for two weeks” button, but I can seldom go a day without logging in again. This forum has them beat, in more ways than one.
Your login information is in a cookie on your computer. If you delete cookies periodically you delete your logon identity and password.
Happens to me about every two months or so, without having done anything obvious with the computer.
Mark
I get it occasionally, but not enough to be troublesome. I assume that Kalmbach got the software from someone else. If this is a forum software bug, it will require a software update to be done and delivered. This takes time and carries risks of more bugs. Since this seems minor, it might not even be addressed until the next major version. OTOH it could be caused by your firewall, anti virus, anti spyware, ad blocker, etc. software which could be a bug in that software or a setting you have on your computer.
Enjoy
Paul
I had this happen three seperate times—once because I cleared the cookies, and the other two times were due to browser issues—
The idea that the anti-spyware could be doing this might be something to check—in fact check all your security settings as well as other things—
Depends on what “occasionally” means. If you have to log on many times per week, and you haven’t set up your web browser to delete cookies automatically, then it is some kind of problem.
If you have to log on again say once per month, then it is not a bug, but normal behavior.
It would be a bad idea to keep users permanently logged on for years and years, That would have been a security problem when people sell or throw away old their computers without explicitly logging out of websites. Whoever get the computer can then impersonate you on the web sites you are logged into. So cookies usually have an “expire date”.
My web browser, e.g. is set up to keep cookies from websites (e.g. from cs.trains.com) until they expire. Expiry date on the cookies I currently have from cs.trains.com right now is October 23rd 2009 - in Firefox, you can examine cookies by going to meny choice Tools | Options | Privacy and click on “Show Cookies”.
So I expect I possibly will have to log on again sometime around October 23rd - which is about a month since I last logged on (about a week ago).
Smile,
Stein
Yup, it’s simply that the cookie expires. On the old version it probably set a cookie with no expiration, so the only way you’d have a problem is if you periodically cleared cookies. I don’t see this as a showstopper, or a reason to not use the forums. Perpetual logins are BAD security practices. I’d be willing to bet if you actually logged off every time you’d never see that message about having to log out then back in again. But even I don;t do that.
–Randy
I use three “Win-System Optimizers” and only Ashampoo Winoptimizer v5 cleans out the MRR Forum cookie while Glary Utilities and Tune-Up Utilities leaves this cookie alone. The three win-optimizers are used because each one overlaps in what each one safely catches to be optimized.
CCleaner always cleaned out the MRR Forum cookie when that optimizer was in use. MRR Forum is probably the only cookie that sometimes gets deleted with optimization.
Firefox password plug-in, Sxipper, allows me to painlessly login-in to MRR Forum again.
I like the community here a lot,but a couple things do bother me. One, the time it takes to start the website,two why does it have to restart the whole website when you change threads, and three where is the forum jump feature? BILL