Is anyone besides me having any problems with the forums logging out unexpectedly and several times per day? I’ve found recently that the website login I have been using for over a year is now either not logging me in to the forums, or if it does, it seems to expire quickly. On top of that, the ucp.php workaround to login often just drops me right back to the login prompt with no message as if I hadn’t actually tried to login. If I try 2-3 times, with or without the “always keep me logged in” checked, it will work again for a bit, but then often throws the “sid=” querystring parameter.
And by “unexpectedly” I mean that I can be browsing a non-public forum thread and hit reply and get the forum login prompt. Or, be composing a reply in any forum thread and hit “Submit” to be prompted with the “you must be logged in” prompt as well.
This has happened on multiple systems, windows and Mac and I have, on both cleared all cookies and cache related to Waze, only to have the problem recur within a few hours.
This has always been my experience even with the ucp solution. Until I started using Tim’s cleaner forum script. Which now keeps me logged in permanently!
A couple days ago I had a password issue, and I had to change it everywhere. The repeated login issue started right afterwards, so I attributed it to that.
Today I could not even compose a PM and submit it without the login popping back up. After logging in again it did NOT take me back to the PM Compose screen either. If happened so often that I finally used the browser “back” button to successfully return me to the Compose screen where I was able to Submit my PM.
I also cleared my cache, closed and reopened the browser which did not help. (Chrome on my Win7 PC)
Tonight at dinner I used my iPad and had the same issues with the rapid timeout.
Maybe they inadvertently changed the time-out in the cookies.
I can only ready two unread post and then the forum looses all indication of what is left to read. So I logout and then login and it will then show the unread post again.
But if I use the phone (tapatalk) I have no problems…
I’m finding the same thing while working on maps. A segment can’t be made active, but I can save the changes that I’ve recently made. Then I sign out, sign in, and things are OK — for a while.
I just got the login screen for the first time in months. This morning, I had to log in to Tapatalk…something I"m pretty sure I haven’t had to do since I installed Tapatalk in January.
Then when I tried to post this message, it went to the login screen…second attempt here.
I’ve experimented with other phpBB forums (with practically no traffic)… It goes from 1 Guest + 0 Registered Users to 0 guests + 1 Registered user when I log in.
In fact, when I came to this thread after those steps, I couldn’t reply because it had logged me back out already. Took 4 attempts at the ucp.php page to get logged in.
