# Getting logged out and style switching. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 3, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494 "2019-03-03T19:13:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/1 "2019-03-03T19:13:57Z")
I’m getting repeatedly logged out and every time I click onto a new thread/page/whatever, I get booted into the new SDMB style - Sultantheme. What’s going on? Issue on my side or the boards? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/2 "2019-03-03T19:27:15Z")
I’m not seeing an issue. What browser and OS are you using? Do you have anything that might interfere with cookies? If something is cleaning out your cookies that will cause you to get logged out. We have also had some weird cookie issues with some Apple devices over the years. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/3 "2019-03-03T19:32:27Z")
Windows 8 and Firefox. The being logged out happens every day when I first open SDMB and the switching versions happens literally every single time I click anything on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/4 "2019-03-03T20:30:10Z")
Do you see a green padlock in the address bar? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/5 "2019-03-03T20:38:16Z")
How are you getting to the SDMB? Bookmark? If you click on this link, do you still get logged out? [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=2](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=2) If not, do you get logged out when you click on a link on the page? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/6 "2019-03-03T20:52:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Do you see a green padlock in the address bar? No - it’s gone! > [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > How are you getting to the SDMB? Bookmark? > > If you click on this link, do you still get logged out? > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=2](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?f=2) > > If not, do you get logged out when you click on a link on the page? OK, what the heck did you do? I’m not logged out and the style didn’t switch and the green padlock is back… ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/7 "2019-03-03T21:00:33Z")
You need to update your bookmarks (or however it is you are getting here). You’re missing the https at the beginning of the links. Here is a link to the main page of the SDMB. You can bookmark this link, or any link you follow from this one: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/8 "2019-03-03T22:04:19Z")
Also go to your User CP, drop to Edit Options, scroll down to the very last option, which is Skin Options. Make sure your default is set to Straight Dope v3.7.3, and not to Sultantheme. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/9 "2019-03-03T22:45:08Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I’m getting repeatedly logged out I’ve had the same problem on and off over the years; especially when I go for more than 5 minutes without posting a message after logging in. For some time last year it was as little as a minute which is why I often hit the MMP first. I always wrote it off to some sort of cookie problem or the fact that both computers I use qualify as collectables. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/10 "2019-03-04T07:24:22Z")
Thank you for the help. Issue is fixed. So what caused my bookmark to change? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/11 "2019-03-04T12:55:44Z")
I didn’t want to start a new thread for this, because this may be the fault of my work network setup. I am logged in, and seeing ads. Unisys, I believe it was- Google, a large empty space above the masthead. Weird. At work I use an outdated Firefox because our Oracle software was not cooperating with the latest version. ETA: Currently Watch Now Newstracker in the middle of this page. Also Orlissa, Zenni, Capterra. I’m logging off. See you after work. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/12 "2019-03-04T13:06:54Z")
It does not happen with Internet Explorer. Looks like my employer has found another way to F\*\*\* with me. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/13 "2019-03-04T14:40:16Z")
This (as described in the OP) is happening to me _at work_ where the OS is Windows 7 and browser is Chrome; not happening at home under MacOS 10.11 / Safari. I was assuming it was some aspect of the corporate setup here, some setting systemwide that was eating the cookies or something, but then i saw this thread title. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-logged-out-and-style-switching/830494/14 "2019-03-04T15:51:55Z")
It’s not that your bookmark changed. It’s that recent changes cause the board to act odd in some ways with the non-https version.