Unable to stay permanently logged in

jwil

It's happening to me too. I'm using IE.

jem16

fermi wrote: »

Interesting.

So it now suddenly works OK if you use the http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/index.php link instead?

Maybe it is related after all then?

I have now replaced the 2 favourites to the above URL and all is fine now. Using IE9 I had one in Favourites and one pinned to the task bar. Both were using the other URL without index.php.

poppy10_2

Thanks grahawk, changing my bookmark from

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/subscription.html
to
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/subscription.php

has sorted it out

Dumyat

this is happening to me to and its a real pain.

dunstonh

It looks like a cookie problem that has come about because of the link change. If you change your bookmark/favourites to the new link then it will work as before.

edit: just checked with firefox and IE and that works.

Biggles

Actually, it seems to work as before with any URL as your bookmark except the 'correct' one, which we all use, http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/!

And as soon as you click on any forum, you are shown as logged in. Very trivial but must be confusing a great number of people, who probably keep logging back in.

spike87

Is anyone actually looking into this or are we to just change bookmarks?

Premier_2

Stompa wrote: »

Interesting, I'm seeing the same. But, refreshing the screen doesn't log me in on my initial visit to that link, only on subsequent visits (after going to a board and finding myself logged in).

For me the effect is very obvious as I have chosen to retain the 'old look' on the site. So the original page appears in 'new look' but it changes to 'old look' when I go to a board etc....

You're right.

I was looking today for the issue when I first visited.

Simply refreshing the screen doesn't work. I need to have gone to one of the boards (which I do using a new window) - then refreshing the first screen logs me in

jem16

I'm still getting the problem of coming back to the site and it seems to think I've only visited 1 minute ago.

For example I was last on around 22:30 last night but didn't logout as I always do. Clicked through from an email notification this morning at 08:50 to read the next post in a thread I'm subscribed to - that was fine. Came out of that post to look elsewhere and noticed that there had been no other new posts since my last visit. Then noticed that it said I had last visited at 08:49 which explains the supposed lack of new posts.

However other times when it's only been around 30 minutes since visits I can come back and it still shows the previous time of my last visit. That bit was explained as apparently the time it takes to realise you are offline has been changed from around 15 minutes to 45 minutes.

Anyone else having this problem?

MothballsWallet

Happening to me too, on Firefox 3.6.10 - if I close down Firefox and shutdown my laptop, the next time I boot up and go to the forums link in my Bookmarks it happens - I'll try updating the link again later and see if that helps.

ETA: Changing the bookmarked link in Firefox to add index.php at the end works.