Over the past few days I’ve been having a problem where I need to constantly log in. For example, log in to post a thread/reply, type whatever, click on <Preview> & I’m driven to the login screen again. Login again, fix a typo/change a word & press <Submit> & I need to login again. There’s no way I should be timing out that quick as some of the times it happens is less than a minute that I’ve been on a given screen.
I think it’s signon related as I’ve had this happen on two different computers today, XP with Firefox v?? & Win7 with Firefox v21. Any suggestions or backend fixes that can be made?
Among the many problems that have become increasingly prominent lately, this is one that many others have been reporting. I first reported it in January, IIRC, and others have reported it since.
If you skim through recent posts in ATMB problems, you’ll find several threads where this is mentioned, often repeatedly, and often along with other problems as well.
I had to sign in FOUR (or was it 5) times just to post this reply.
ETA: Suggestion: When you finish typing a new post, copy it to your clipboard just in case you lose it before you manage to post it. (I had to log in twice more just to add this ETA.)
I’m having this problem really bad tonight also. It’s kicking me out after every single post, and when I try to log in, it just bounces me back to the main page - sometimes with me logged in, sometimes logged out.
I’ve discovered that if I click on the “click here if your browser doesn’t redirect” link when I log in, that at least I go directly to the thread I was trying to reply to.
The constant logging in is really getting frustrating tho.
This. 4 or 5 times to log in.
ETA - I logged in directly before posting this, and when I clicked submit, it made me log in again. le sigh let’s see what happens on the edit!
New post because I couldn’t stay logged in long enough to edit - it wouldn’t let my login stay active so I couldn’t get permission to edit my post. If it wasn’t so frustrating, it’d be hilarious.
What gives?
Ha! I’m using a borrowed computer and am having the same problems. I spent a couple hours doing virus/malware checks last night only to come back today to see that it’s becoming a common problem here. I’ll check the other threads on ATMB to see if a cause has been identified but in a word, grrrrrrrr.
This started happening to me about the same time so many others began reporting it.
I deleted all cookies from the SDMB and then checked the “remember me” box next time I logged in, and it hasn’t happened since.
Tried this and failed. No improvement.
Frustrating when you’re trying to post something.
Same here. VERY frustrating. :mad:
It took me more than (lost count) 6 tries to post this!
Trouble logging in or staying logged in or making new/edited posts?
I posted a kinda-sorta-partial work-around here, that doesn’t quite solve the problem, but makes it just a bit less troublesome.
Summary: When you see that log-in screen unexpectedly (especially when you’ve just typed or edited a post and you click on “Submit” or “Save Changes” or “Preview”), you don’t really have to type in your user and and password over and over.
Instead, just click on your browser’s “Back” button to go back to the page where you were typing in your post, and then click on “Submit” or “Save Changes” or “Preview” again. You might still have to try this several times, but at least it’s easier than re-typing your name and password again and again.
In general, this seems to work any time that you were logged in on the page that your “Back” button takes you back to.