While you're moving things around, is it possible to change the login so that going to one's personal info page is optional? Just to make it quicker.No, I can't. Sorry. I know it's a minor inconvenience, but changes in your account are the first sign that something might be wrong, so accordingly, every single time, you will see your page.
No, I can't. Sorry. I know it's a minor inconvenience, but changes in your account are the first sign that something might be wrong, so accordingly, every single time, you will see your page.
Besides, if this is the worst of your daily problems, we really need to find you a life mate.
What I found inconvenient was that when I came to the site I would enter my nickname and password, click "Login" and promptly get taken to my Profile page. However, for some reason, for a long while, this would display hardly any details about me except my avatar and signature and some statistical bumf. Trying to edit the profile at this point would be futile as there would be no edit option.
Upon clicking on another link I would then discover I wasn't logged in at all. At which point I would have to login again to continue.
However, upon logging in a second time, everything would be fine. My full profile would appear, I'd be able to edit it, and I could safely click on another link without fear of becoming logged out.
And, before you suggest it's my browser, it didn't matter which browser I used: Microsoft (*spit*) Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape 6.2. The result would be the same. So after a while I stopped bothering to login.
I say for a long while, but it gets better. I just tried logging in tonight and I can't get in no matter how many times I enter my nickname and password, or which browser I use (Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 6.2, Opera 6 or Netscape 4.7. Heck... may as well try all of 'em tonight ;-) ). Yet every time I enter my nickname and password I get:
Hello reticuli, taking you to your profile page...
If the page does not automatically reload, please click here
This suggests the problem is not at my end - after all, the above clearly indicates the system has successfully verified my username and password. To verify this I enter an incorrect password which results in:
Incorrect Login!
If the page does not automatically reload, please click here
However, to contradict this, I know other people are getting in ok... I can see them. And an awful lot of them must surely be using IE6 and Netscape. Which beggars the question - wtf?
At first thought I wondered whether my cookies were disabled. But they're not.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
As you can see, I managed to log in tonight. However, you are wrong about the refresh. I'm a fairly patient person and don't generally use the refresh button. (I'm usually loading about 5 other Amiga related sites, in addition to Amiga.org, in the background, while I do IRC). And in every case I let it continue until it reached the profile page (which always resulted in a profile with hardly any details and no edit button) because I know interupting pages can cause problems with some systems.
I feel I must clarify something. When I said:
However, to contradict this, I know other people are getting in ok... I can see them. And an awful lot of them must surely be using IE6 or Netscape.
What I suppose I should have stressed better was that an awful lot of those people who are *successfully* logging in must be using IE6 or Netscape. Otherwise I'm fairly sure someone would have pointed out similar problems to that which I have been having much earlier and en masse. Which in turn suggests it isn't the browser that is causing the problem.
Anyway, I digress. Out of interest I decided to try your theory. And what happens is this: If I try to refesh the page while on the screen that displays:
Hello reticuli, taking you to your profile page...
If the page does not automatically reload, please click here
A window pops up:
"The page cannot be refreshed without resending the information. Click Retry to send the information again or click Cancel to return to the page that you were trying to view."
I stress again... I have NEVER clicked refresh at this point before - I've ALWAYS let it continue to the profile page as naturally it should.
At this point clicking on retry would sometimes result in me staying on that page and at others would take me on to my profile automatically. When it didn't take me to the page automatically, as soon as I clicked "Click Here" it logged me in fine. There was at no stage a situation where I ended up being logged out. All of which is in complete contradiction to what you say about you only being able to reproduce the problem by clicking refresh.
Then I had another idea and decided to make sure the profile page NEVER loaded. First by logging out. Then by logging myself back in but deliberately clicking "Stop" as soon as the above "Hello reticuli, taking you to your profile" screen appeared. If my theory was correct getting to the profile page was a red herring and I should already be logged in the moment I got the "Hello reticuli, taking you to your profile page" screen. To prove the point I then typed http://www.amiga.org into the address bar and I was right - I was logged in.
The conclusion? This has got nothing to do with whether I let the profile page load or not. In the above process I made sure I didn't reach it and still found myself logged in.
All I know for certain is it's strange.
Hopefully it won't happen again but if it does I'll make a point of getting more information on the problem.
Anyway, keep up the good work and I hope this is taken constructively (as it is intended)