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reply to Mele20

Re: [bugs] Doesn't anybody around here fix bugs?

What you're describing sounds like a browser issue, perhaps a stale cache? Simply reloading a page doesn't force you through the authentication process again.

Can you try logging in with another browser, see if there's any change? Copy/paste the link from the email (once you're logged in) into the new browser to see if it loads?

I just discovered yet another element to the bug. I accidentally closed FireFox somehow. When I reopened it an hour or so later, I was logged out. I didn't realize I was logged out(the page theme was my chosen one)until I went to edit my previous post and got a blank page with some HTML code at the bottom. I hit the back button and the page loaded with my theme. I hit refresh and it loaded with the default theme.

Aren't you supposed to stay logged in across browsing sessions?

I don't have any ERN"s from restricted sections of the forum right now. I'll try your suggestion when I get one(If I remember ).
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I can't speak for heat84 but I don't allow a cache on any browser (except on IE where I cannot set zero cache so I set it as low as possible, but I don't use IE except for Speed tests and rarely for something else). On my other browsers, I have no cache and have had it set like this for many years. I generally have several tabs open here. I click on one and I see a garish bright blue theme for that forum...not my Canadian red theme. And the site says I need to login ...why I have no idea as I should be always logged in (but I think it has to do, at least partly, with the limitation on how many browsers or computers (physical and virtual) you can be logged on here simultaneously. I used to get this a lot more when I had a second physical computer as well as virtual machines).

Anyhow, the site says to login, and my theme is gone, so I must be logged out. I go to log in and the site rudely infers that I am an idiot because it complains that I need to log out first before I log in again! Grrr...that is irritating and definitely a bug.

As for not being able to login on the forum thread...I have never gotten email notifications of threads I am following/posting in having new posts. I assume when the user gets one of these emails that clicking on the link takes the user directly to the thread and then the user reads the new posts and may decide to reply. Why can't they log in right there when they hit reply? And login should take them back to that thread and the reply screen...not deposit them on the front page or postlist or wherever. If what I have described is what the OP is complaining about then, yes, that should be fixed. I get really irritated at a site I post at frequently that although I have told the site to keep me perpetually logged in frequently the site logs me out for no real reason. I click on the tab that is open to that site and there is no special theme to tell me I am logged in or not depending on what theme I see..there is just the default theme.. so I assume I am logged in. I read the new posts in the thread and go to reply. Oops! No reply button is visible. That is how I know I am logged out. I have to go to login window and login and the site then deposits me on the main list of forums page...not back in the thread where I wanted to reply. Ugh. I've been a member of that forum since 2003 and still it has that irritating bug. So, I can understand the OP's irritation about the bugs here that he experiences.
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