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There’s nothing the admins can do. Only Ivo can fix these things, and he’s got limited time to resolve problems he’s having trouble pinning down. Urgent or not, there’s nothing the rest of us can do.

Advie - 20 October 2021 12:28 PM

It seems like Admins gonna ignore this report until it is backed by two or three more, just like last time.
come on, it’s no fun to have to log each time you want to make sure you have read all recent posts. this is urgent, really.

uploading pictures

here is a demonstration for issue

So you keep being logged out is what you’re saying, correct? I myself have had significant improvements since I made changes, but from your comments I’m getting that it’s not improving.

I understand these things can be frustrating, it’s the same for me as I keep trying to debug and resolve issue I don’t myself encounter. Any further information you have really helps me, but please realise that they are hard to solve.

I am not choosing to not solve them to annoy you Advie, I am having issues finding what is causing it.

I’ve gone over all caching and related settings, from our hosting provider as well as the local site again and made further tweaks and changes. Please let me know if this improves things in any way.

Jabod - 11 September 2021 05:25 AM

Just for info I’m still getting logged out every day or two (happened this morning) but it’s not something I’m particularly bothered about. It’s possible that DuckDuckGo (the browser I use) could be the culprit but that’s a guess on my part.
What’s also been noticeable the last few weeks is that the asterisk against my name in the “currently online” list has vanished. I’ve always logged in without my name showing but I’m wondering if that’s no longer working.

What I’ve found so far, is that currently selecting the option to show you’re online or not isn’t triggering at all. If you have it properly set it remembers it, but if you once login marking that it’s fine to show yourself in the online list, somehow you cannot switch back to hiding your online status.

Why this is happening is still a riddle that I’m trying to unravel.

I’ve figured out why it’s not working for everyone, it has to do with a specific cookie being set that remembers if the currently logged in user should be marked as anonymous.

Honestly, that the system works like that makes no sense to me whatsoever, so I’m investigating how to fix this.

So, I believe I’ve figured this out.

We use a system to manage cookie consent, this is an important element and obviously mandatory for GDPR reasons. The software this site was built in (to be clear, not by me, I just need to work with it) uses cookies for quite a few preferences, some of which are unclear to me why you’d do it like that, but it does.

Some of the cookies involved with concepts like which posts you’ve read, as well as if you’re logged in anonymously, were marked as ‘preference’ cookies. Which is obviously true, however, if you’ve selected to only allow ‘necessary’ cookies, those cookies were excluded.

I’ve gone through the different cookies used by the site and ensured that the cookies that are important to how it works, are marked as necessary. Any site specific cookie that holds more PI information, would be marked as preference/statistics, so those would still be excluded.

This explain why for some users this is behaving differently. I’m unsure how long it takes for the system I’m using to properly process these changes, but at least I now know how to debug some of this. I’ll keep digging here.

Baby steps, but glad to hear there’s progress!

For context, for me it’s like excavation most of time. I know how to program, but need to work with a (very old!) CMS system, diving into the depths of how it functions and why it functions the way it does before I can fix things. It’s an interesting puzzle at times :-)

Anyone been having any new issues or continued issues? How have the login related points been?