Why do I have to log in everytime I come here? I'm using my own, home computer, and I check the remember me box, but I still have to log in everytime I come here. Why is that?

Nikki

If you clear your cookies you will be forced to log in when you come back to the board. Check your settings to make sure that your browser doesn't clear it's cookies when you close it out.

But I only have that problem at this site. I got to other boards I'm registered at, and I stay logged in.

When I just came to the board's home page, I wasn't logged in. I visited the Entertainment News section, and I wasn't logged in. I then came to see your response to my post here, and I was logged in. I didn't log in before I clicked on this post though. Do you know why that would happen?

Nikki

Same thing happens for me most of the time.

do you log in at other computers? ie. work? Cause I've found that will cause me to have to relog in at my home pc on many boards.

Ive always been meaning to ask this but I cant ever stay logged in either

Do you guys have dial-up or broadband? Because I used to have a problem back when I had dial-up, but I don't have a problem now that I have broadband.

boradband for me and I only access SON from one pc

Then I'm not sure what's causing the problem. After leaving the site, how long to you wait to come back? I have no idea if SON does this or not, but if you are away from the site for awhile, your connection to the site may time out, causing you to log in again.

That's the only thing I can think of. But I really have no idea what's causing it.

I don't mean to sound like a smart ass or anything when I ask what I'm about to......

Is it really that much of a bother to log onto the board each time you visit?

I can see it being a problem if your logged in and out multiple times while browsing the board though.....

But I only have that problem at this site. I got to other boards I'm registered at, and I stay logged in.

When I just came to the board's home page, I wasn't logged in. I visited the Entertainment News section, and I wasn't logged in. I then came to see your response to my post here, and I was logged in. I didn't log in before I clicked on this post though. Do you know why that would happen?

Nikki

How often do you clear your cache? And is your browser's cache set to Automatically check for new versions of cached pages, instead of "When I visit" or "Never"?

I don't mean to sound like a smart ass or anything when I ask what I'm about to......

Is it really that much of a bother to log onto the board each time you visit?

I can see it being a problem if your logged in and out multiple times while browsing the board though.....

no bc Ive been doing it for months but it is annoying when I just want to lurk on the board. Being logged helps me keep track of what posts are new and what Ive viewed and havent. Its not a huge deal but it definetly makes things more convenient and easier to browse.

Like razor32always, this is also the only site I have this issue with and I visit a few Invision Boards

Diito what Cheap said.

I've been having trouble, check that, I never seem to remain logged into this site and it's been going on for weeks if not longer. I am a member of several other invision and other boards and have no such trouble. And in the past, I had no such trouble at SON, so I firmly believe it is an SON problem (maybe related to invision, yes, but still specific to SON).

Nothing's changed since the board was down and came back up in a new version. Still, I can go one page off the SON site, come back and be logged out again.

It may seem trivial to some, but I scurry around from board to board and visit SON many times throughout the day and night, so yeah...it gets on my nerves.

And as others mentioned, lurking's fine until you come across a post you want to reply to and then there's the issue of not getting posts marked as read if you're logged out. I hate having to scroll and scroll to get to the next unread post.

The ability to stay logged in should you so choose and marking posts read are common and popular feature of most message boards, so I don't think it's out of line to try and get the problem fixed.

I have cable broadband and IE and have for years now.

Thanks very much,

rs

I believe I have figured out why this is happening.

There is something called a stronghold auto-login cookie that was put in place upon setup of the SON Community (by Invision setup itself). This is an additional cookie to the standard cookie that is placed in your browser history that contains geographic information about your session in a crypt, which ensures that your cookie session (ie. your login details, etc) are impossible to be found and stolen by a possible hacker via your computer.

I have turned off this setting for now. If the problem continues, please let me know.

Hi Errol,

Thanks so much for looking into this problem.

Unfortunately, nothing's changed for me. Still don't stay logged in. Everytime I leave, I'm logged out without any action of my own.

Any more ideas?

Much appreciated,

rs