Can login just not be fixed? Is it permanently broken?

[djb]

The forum software forgets me at random, where other web forums remember me across reboots without error. As well, for some reason Safari's autofill fails on the login fields.

As well, this makes no sense to me:

I enter my login info at the discussion forum page.

The forum asks me to wait while it redirects me...

... to the main home page, where there is no option to login, so I MUST login at the /bb page, which redirects me to the home page, where there is no option to login so I MUST login at the /bb page, which redirects me to...

Can a sysop please explain the logic here? I'm thinking impolite thoughts combined with "bad UI design... very bad UI design."

[Mike]

I can't remember ever having seen a login page except for the first time I visited the forum. I just come straight in. I'm using Safari.

Could it be that I never log out? Do you normally click 'log out' after a session?

[Shane Stanley]

Originally Posted by Mike

I can't remember ever having seen a login page except for the first time I visited the forum. I just come straight in. I'm using Safari

Same here. I have this bookmarked: <http://www.desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/search.php?do=getnew>

Shane

[annc]

Originally Posted by Shane Stanley

Same here. I have this bookmarked: <http://www.desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/search.php?do=getnew>

I've got a username in here that has no staff flags, and on several occasions I've set that user to be automatically logged in via the checkbox on the forum home page (not the domain home page).

In spite of extensive testing in both Safari and Firefox, I cannot replicate Dave's problems. I use a more generic URL, which is http://www.desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/

If I delete the cookies for this site, I will get the forum home page with the login at the top right-hand corner, but if I then enter my username and password and check the auto-login box, next visit, and all others after that, I get straight in.

As a standard procedure, I check this site regularly on my Windows laptop with various browsers and usernames, and it performs identically to the Mac. It is very frustrating not to be able to replicate Dave's problems.

[djb]

If you log in from /bb/ where do you get redirected to? That's my particular complaint this time 'round. The forum redirects me from /bb/ to /

Does it not do the same to you?

[JohnC]

I don't get redirected. My bookmark (in Safari on my Mac, and IE on my PC) is for http://www.desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/ and that is the page I end up on, listing all the subforums. I have not had to input my name or password since the first time I used the forum on each machine a number of months ago. I don't even remember what my login name is. I must remember to make note of it when this message posts.

John

[djb]

Originally Posted by JohnC

I don't get redirected. My bookmark (in Safari on my Mac, and IE on my PC) is for http://www.desktoppublishingforum.com/bb/ and that is the page I end up on, listing all the subforums. I have not had to input my name or password since the first time I used the forum on each machine a number of months ago. I don't even remember what my login name is. I must remember to make note of it when this message posts.

If you're not logging in, of course you're not being redirected. I get redirected when I log in which forced on me randomly.

[annc]

Originally Posted by djb

If you log in from /bb/ where do you get redirected to? That's my particular complaint this time 'round. The forum redirects me from /bb/ to /

Does it not do the same to you?

Hang on while I clear out cookies etc. and force it to ask for a login.

[annc]

Originally Posted by djb

If you log in from /bb/ where do you get redirected to? That's my particular complaint this time 'round. The forum redirects me from /bb/ to /

Does it not do the same to you?

Well, I've tried it half a dozen times in Safari, and the redirect page appears briefly. I do not click on anything.

Then I am taken back to /bb/

Every time, and with both my flagged user and my standard member user.

Something similar to what you are experiencing happened to me recently with Binky's Ikonboard board; I would click on New posts, and the redirect page would get stuck, forcing me to click on one of the options. But that only lasted about half an hour before it reverted to standard behaviour.

[djb]

Originally Posted by annc

Well, I've tried it half a dozen times in Safari, and the redirect page appears briefly. I do not click on anything.

Then I am taken back to /bb/

Every time, and with both my flagged user and my standard member user.

The redirect behaviour is by definition at the forum's end, not mine.

The forum software does not redirect me to /bb/. It never has.

I shall assume the answer to my question, then is "No. The behaviour cannot be fixed because we don't know why it is happening."