heya

just wondering if theres a problem with the forum
once i log in into the forum to do some posts, after a while of no activity it will log me off and show me that im a spectator. this is even if i select the 'remember me' check box.

this happens to me at work and at home
so its 2 different pcs.
the only common thing is that i use firefox at work and at home.

just wondering if there are any known issues with firefox and the log in process..


anybody else experiencing the same issue?

:-k :-k :-k

Yes, experience it all the time. They know about the issue though I think.

I get logged out when im do lengthy posts and then i press submit and i lose all the stuff ive written because im not logged in.

Also. Just then logging in. I had the remember me thing ticked but i still had too. I couldnt log in. I typed my correct username and password but it just kept saying it was wrong. Didnt know what to do. I unclicked the remember me thing and it worked again.

That's very weird mk, because ticking the checkbox should have absolutely no effect whatsoever.

If you do get logged out during post submission, you should be able to log in, then press back a few times to resubmit your post and it should all be there and submit correctly.

In regards to the problem itself.... we know what's caused the problem, but we don't know what's causing the problem. Confused much? haha

So yes, we are aware of the problem.

i GET ISSUE.

I coudlnt log in at all a couple of hours ago.

it used to be fine for me a while ago but recently i have had to keep logging in
bit annoying, but not life threatening

It seems taht you get logged out if you're inactive for around half an hour (ie on the one page and don't click anything).

mr web guy, sir - with regard to the being able to log back in, that doesnt' work so smoothly and I always lose what I'm working on because it takes me to the main page on the site. Is there a way we can stop that from happening?? It gets really annoying if I want to just quickly log into the forums and be off again and it takes me back to the main page and i've got to go back to the fourms and find the thread I was reading.

Ok, as you all can see, the logging in is a bit buggy at the moment and unfortunately we don't have the time to work it all out right now.

afro, the reason it takes you back to the main page is because it does that by default if it can't detect where you came from. I just logged out from this page. Then clicked log in from this page. I then logged in, and it brought me back here.

Even if you get taken back to the main page, you should be able to keep pressing back and it'll take you to where you originally started from.

Ah huh...so if I jump straight to 'au.fourfourtwo.com/forums' it doesn't know where I came from and will have a hissy fit? rightio.

btw...do you think you could build a site that bloody works consistantly?? I had to refresh the page fucking 23 times before it loaded correctly with the damn layering hinkyness.

I just did an update to the site bout 20 or so minutes ago. That could've caused the weird rendering issues.

(although why it does those rendering issues normally..... good question, and it doesn't usually take 23 reloads. Did you actually count 23?)

If it was up to a few of us, we'd be redoing the site from scratch (and that should fix the rendering issues). But alas, not atm.

Yeah, I actually counted 23 of them. It was driving me fucking mental.

It seems to have settled down a little now so it could just have been your updating. There seem to be more rendering issues coming up now that I'm using firefox aswell for some reason...but bizarrely, the pages load faster so I'm not complaining too much about that.

what shits me is when i open up the 442 webiste it acknowledges me but when i hit the forums i need to login it dosent happen as much anymore but there was a time where it happened everyday

Happened to me a month ago Fredsta. My name would appear as if I were logged in when I was at the home page, but then going into the forum I would appear as a spectator.

It's all good now, for me anyway.

same thing was happening here, stopped in the last few weeks

Can't say I have that problem much coz I usually jump straight to the forums.

I did however get cut off mid-rant again.

Clicking remember me doesnt always work either.

Yeah...I told firefox to remember the password and it won't even do that!:-S

Sometimes i come on here and and im not logged in so i just PO but then when i come in the next time i am logged in. It seems it is "remembering me" but not every time. Do you have the cure for alzheimers web guy?

Also a new post of mine loaded up with everything right about me (username, post count, sig, etc.) but i had afros avatar.

thats messed up mk

I have a few issues with firefox:

The front news ticker big banner won't load. It has a circle loading thing around and around and around.

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/82755,kewell-scores-on-turkish-debut.aspx

The "click here to view video" won't show up with FF.

The weird thing is that these issues seem to come and go.

yeah, i find i get logged out of the forums a lot more at work

but at home its a lot better
not perfect..but better

maybe 442 has to get a proper forum happening...like what overclockers is hosted on ...that be nice :)

Unfortunately the forums that overclockers runs on, runs on a totally different environment to what 442 uses, making it extremely difficult to integrate (especially the whole forum-article tie-in thing).



If that circle thing keeps going, it either means no story has been loaded in there (unlikely), or something has broken during the page load (very rarely/seldom happens to me).

And I don't see how that link won't work, it's a straight regular link, nothing fancy whatsoever.

I also have the same problem, just like everyone else. However, very often, I'm now finding that hitting F5 a couple of times somehow logs me back in again without me having to go through the whole login palaver.

I;m on Firefox, btw.

I reckon that circle thing isn't to do so much with the server as it does with Firefox imo. When I was on Firefox 2, the same circle thing would happen on youtube (ie. videos wouldn't load/play) at the same period of time that it would happen with this website. But haven't had any circle issues with FF3. :)

Edited by martyB: 19/8/2008 11:16:22 AM

The only issue i've had with FF3 is that it tells me I need to download plugins sometimes and then when I go to download them it won't let me.

FWIW, I'm still getting booted out of my forum login in Firefox, but so far Google's new browser Chrome has kept me logged in solidly.

http://www.google.com/chrome/



Edited by Kevin Airs: 3/9/2008 04:20:52 PM

I was hesitant at first, but it's a pretty sweet browser. Better than FF imo. Also, the pages here at FFT load a lot quicker and crisper than in FF.

so whats the update on fixing this issue...seems to be getting worse and i get logged out a lot quicker now

yeah its odd. I can come back after like a week and still be logged in on the home page and be able to post, but when i go to the forums im logged out... even after a few hours it logs me out of forums

Out of interest, what browsers you guys running? Have you tried others?

It happens on safari when im on my mac and internet explorer when im on the pc. Havnt tried FF

Problem: solved.

EDIT: :lol:

Edited by martyB: 12/9/2008 09:32:40 PM

i use firefox at home and at work

Which version of FF though? 2 or 3? I've had no dramas at all since installing FF3.

The only dramas I've found with FF3 is with applications in windows like with youtube clips imbedded in webpages and with accessing my emails, but that's been a problem with all internet browsers I've found.

im using latest version of firefox 3.0.1
at home and at work
have the issue every day
and i swear its getting worse, logged out all the time

come on 442, time to fix this...
or lets change to a different forum structure/design

We build/maintain a lot of websites, and unfortunately we don't have the time/manpower to fix an issue such as this.

After talking with some of the senior web developer guys, they all agree it makes no sense. Since we launched 442 back in March-ish last year, we've launched and relaunched quite a few websites, and learnt quite a lot on the way.

The only feasible way that we can see to fix this issue is to basically rebuild the entire site/forums from scratch (which would, in turn, fix those weird rendering issues that occur every now and then).

It sucks, I know, and I truly want to fix the problem, but right now we just can't.

When we DO eventually rebuild this site (well every site gets rebuilt eventually..), I'll make sure this is one of the highest priorities (although it is extremely hard to test).

FYI though, I do get logged out every now and then, but nowhere near as much as you claim to be. Fortunately (if you can call it that), only a few of you are really experiencing and getting annoyed with this. All I can say is sorry, but for now, that's the way it's staying.

It does get annoying.
-When you click 'remember me', itd be handy if you were muthaphukkin remembered!!! :)
-Also its a bitch when you wanna check back on something you just wrote, say you left the site for 5 mins, then youve got to log back in just to reply once.
-THEN theres the times when you write really long replies and you time out and you lose all your work. Those times are the funnest.

I usually CTRL+C longinsh posts to avoid that, or if I goes to another web page, or program before hitting post.

Ive learnt to do that but sometimes youve spent 10 mins on another website and theres only two lines so you forget.

I try to remember to do that...but I sometimes forget :(

Can we please get this fixed? I get logged out all the time, I have to log in just about every time I visit the site.

Please dont say you have to rebuild the whole site to fix it, its just a bug somewhere, you just have to find it. I suspect it is something to do with the cookie expiration time being set incorrectly or perhaps the session id's arent being stored in your database correctly.

Ok then.... explain why it happens to some people and not others.

edit: When I was logged in with this account at home, sometimes I get logged out, sometimes I don't. At work, I never get logged out.

Edited by The Web Guy: 20/10/2008 11:15:03 AM

I know how frustrating it is, sometimes it seems like things happen randomly but there is always an explanation.

Its just so damn annoying. I just came back to the site then and I was logged out again, only like 30 minutes after my last visit. I didnt even close my browser.

It happens to me all the time. Funny how its at work every time I come to the site. At home, its remembered my log in since the last time I logged in (usually a week or more).
But its not hard to hit "sign in" and press a button. I have FF to save my user and password so I'm not typing it all the time.

Yeah, try setting it up so that your browser remembers the details and not FFT. All you have to do everytime you open FFT you just click login. That is a way that I found around the problem at home in Sydney.

Yeah I have FF remembering my password but its still annoying.

Ive timed out about 80 times in the last week. Its not funny. And now its getting down to like 15 mins without refreshing and you time out. Its a pain.

I think it's Internet Explorer [again]

lol for me it happened when i used firefox but today i switched to firefox and finally i can go back on the website yay\:d/

yeah its getting worse for me

starting to piss me off

come on 442, fix it

never happens on opera. it might be I.E. or firefox.

And Safari

My N95's Nokia browser seems to be the only one it doesn't happen to for me...

haha i have the N95 too. The black 8GB one though :lol:

I am using Ubuntu Linux with Firefox at home and the timeout happens all the time.

At work using Firefox on Windows, it's not so bad.

Maybe it's a Ubuntu thing? LOL!

This shit still keeps happening!

im telling you it doesnt happen on opera..........

Why should i have to download that?

because it is good and i have never been logged out on this website when im using it.