I'm the only one that uses my laptop, so I stay logged in to the org. Today, even though I have it set to keep me logged in, every time I close my browser I'm logged out of the org and have to use my password again next time.

What fresh hell glitch is this?

I had to log into my account twice today as well

Well glad I am not the only one. Four times today! This never happens.

I just got logged out when I hit refresh. Not cool.

This totally ruined my year's end

whiners

Same here.

Off to a NYE wedding.

Happy New Year Everyone!

When you have not been posting or active it times you out. Hence the having to log back in.

luv4u said:

When you have not been posting or active it times you out. Hence the having to log back in.

On purpose? Because this is new. And it must be pretty fast. I walked away to answer a phone call, came back 10 minutes later and I was logged out.

djThunderfunk said:

luv4u said:

When you have not been posting or active it times you out. Hence the having to log back in.

On purpose? Because this is new. And it must be pretty fast. I walked away to answer a phone call, came back 10 minutes later and I was logged out.

It logs me out when I have not been active so I have to log back in. The org has always timed me out for years. Or it is simply an org issue.

PANDURITO said:

This totally ruined my year's end

well, at least we don't pay a $ 77,- membership fee

luv4u said:

Yep, there's a bug. I have to log in after each time I close a Prince.org tab.

mELdOURADOsELVAGEM said:

I just figured it out, it's all luv4u's fault. She had that bug for a long time

You just had to let the cat out of the bag didn't you?

mELdOURADOsELVAGEM said:

elderly abuse!! she bad news I tell ya! . [Edited 12/31/19 19:29pm]

what??!!! you 80 years old ? Now keep this thread on track, thanks.

luv4u said:

Happening to me too.

PennyPurple said:

Happening to me too.

Just sayin', it's still happening.

Its def a NEW issue and not some long term ordinary thing luv stated. Yall/Ben causing mini heart attacks having [N word snip - luv4u] thinking theyre banned lol

Yeah, this is new. I've stayed logged in for months at a time... years probably.

This started late 2019, so I'm thinking it must be related to the cookies this site uses. I can't see anything wrong at first sight, so perhaps it has to do with how the back end processes them.

Same here, tested with Firefox on Fedora Linux and Firefox on Win 10.

mELdOURADOsELVAGEM said:

Interesting, thanks for the schooling. I'm not tech savvy at all and don't know how that works. So do you think it's a simple fix for ben if it's cookies?

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The main problem is that AFAIK the Org runs on a custom version of 20 year old forum software. Usually a bug like the one we're experiencing now would have been caught and fixed in an update aeons ago, but now Ben has to look for it himself. Might even be a quirk related to how the software interacts with a specific version of PHP. It might be easy to solve, but quite frankly date/time issues are among the most annoying issues to pinpoint and fix when it comes to software.

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The most ideal solution would be an update to a current forum software package, buuuuut... that would cost a truckload of time and money. Consider that you'd need to convert the existing database to the one used by the new software: twenty years of posts is a lot of data. Consider that this might require new server hardware. Consider that someone will need to pay for it. Consider that the Org likely has various features that might not be available in that new forum software -- e.g. the way the URLs are formed: now you need to have a solution in place so all old URLs continue to work. Etc etc etc.

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The advantage would be that the Org would finally move with the times, might have nice features like e.g. being able to "like" a post, easy permalinks to posts, mobile friendly lay-out, a proper WYSIWYG editor,... But like I said: this would be a costly and time-consuming affair. A blog I visit regularly has recently upgraded to a current version of Wordpress after being stuck on an older one for years, and it took them months and several dedictaed people to get there, even though their previous version was only half a decade old or so. But then you have a lot of custom functionality that also needs to be ported, various features, millions of comments that needed to be moved to a new database,... And after launch (BTW the site was offline for about a day just for the move) they're still spending a lot of times fixing bugs that only turned up now their full audience is using the site. They've even encountered an issue that can only be fixed by Wordpress itself (due to the millions of comments in the database causing one query to max out the server resources!).

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TBH I don't see that happening here. I doubt you'll get enough people willing to pay up $5 or $10 or $20 one time for such an endeavour, when it is absolutely unclear how much work (and thus money) would need to be involved.

BartVanHemelen said: