OT Forum question

Twigman


The forum used to allow me to stay logged in all day...but now it keeps logging me out....how do I change it back so that I stay logged in?

Log out, then log back in and select the "Save cookie" option.
 
 

Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk
]

Twigman


The forum used to allow me to stay logged in all day...but now it keeps logging me out....how do I change it back so that I stay logged in?

I've actually been having the same trouble. I'll see what I can find out.

Brandon,
 
Every now and then, the forum software seems to log users out on its own, and it happens about 2 or 3 times a year (I've been here for a number of years and attest to this) ;)
 
But once a user logs in and tells the system to save the cookie, all remains well until the next episode.
 
 

Twigman

ba_midi



But once a user logs in and tells the system to save the cookie, all remains well until the next episode.

I've been logged out 3 times today and each time I log in I tell it to save as a cookie

Try clearing your browser cache first.
 
That happened to me last year, and clearing my cache, then logging in with the save cookie option solved it.
 
 

logged out here to +1...glad to see i wasnt crazy thinking my system was whack..so it is my system?...oooohhh...

+1 but this forum sw is flaky - i randomly get returned to the forum or the post after posting, rarely see the screen offerin the choice any more; plus i don't always get email notifications when a thread is replied to...

3 times again today......

One would think a software house could at least make its forum software do what it's supposed to....  GRRR!!

LANEY


You could just stay on it all day! lol  

That's my point - it won't let me - it logs me out withoput me asking it to.

It never used to do this.

It's rubbish forum software anyway...I can't even post from my iPhone either - no other forum I use has such a restriction.

Microsoft...runs its monthly security updates. It fixes things and then sometimes breaks things. Cycle through the caching and whatever else to catch up, or wait until next month.

But as you can tell I am just guessing on a hunch...

Back a few days ago I had the forum page not showing up here..I kept getting google oops page first..then I got a couple of times out pages then it came back on...minus my username...

Then when I sent for a password reset the email would not kick in..that was when I reregistered under Trimph2

Next day I came on..and found 2 emails from CW about password resets..so I went back to my Trimph1 username.... 

And all through that time I allowed for the cookie....

All in all a very weird day was had by me... 

and again today on a freshly cleaned cold booted system

pwal

g_randybrown


What I've noticed lately is I don't get emails when subscribed to a post a lot of times.

+!

Check your defaults in the User Profile.  It's possible (due to some problems we know the forum has had lately) that the default to notify via email has been changed.
 
 

Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk
]

The web folks say nothing has changed with the forum systems so I don't know.

FWIW: I'm consistently getting thread reply notifications per usual,

I'm getting 'em too, Brandon.  But something did happen recently - as a lot of folk were affected with the logins, etc.
 
So I do think it's worth check their profiles.
 
I've actually begun turning OFF email notifications on most threads (knowing how they eventually go, lol).
 
 

Twigman


Something has definitely changed.


Well I've emptied my cache several times
I've cold booted
I still get logged out several times a day.
Every time I log-in again I save a cookie but I can be typing a reply even and when i press Post Message it logs me out or I can refresh the forum index and it logs me out etc etc - it makes the forum almost unusable

Find the cookie for cakewalk and delete it manually -- then try loading your browser and going from there again. 
  
Clearing the cache doesn't remove (bad or any) cookies.
 
 

pwal


yup, my profile is set to always sub to threads i post in, as it always has been...
the other issue is post-post: sometimes i see the "go to post", "go to forum" options screen, but mostly i'm just taken straight to the post i just posted... e.g., today, i've posted a couple of times, but only once offered the choice; also, i've never been sent straight back to the forum index, only ever straight back to the post...
when the web folks say "nothing's changed" do they have a different meang of "nothing"? because something has...

"Always Subscribe to Threads" is not the same as "Get Email Notifications".
 
Check that too.
 

pwal


when the web folks say "nothing's changed" do they have a different meang of "nothing"? because something has...

I'm just saying what they told me. No software or changes have been made to the forum server whatsoever is what they tell me. These are pretty technical people FWIW. They did say that MS has deployed patches in the last few days which could effect people's systems, but that the forum software and those particular servers were untouched.

I have no way to verify any of this (I live in LA and wouldn't know what i was doing anyway ). And the fact that everything is working on my end (and for rest of staff) and I have no way to report any reproducible problem or one that I am experiencing first-hand makes it difficult to push the "issue".

Wish there was more I could do, but I'm not sure what it would be at this point. I'll keep an eye out for any info that can help on either end.