I Can't Stay Logged In

[Fierce Critter]

I never sign out of DGN. I just exit the window.

If I come back to DGN later, now I always have to sign in again.

I haven't changed my security levels or anything like that. This is only happening with the new changes. Prior, I only had to sign in if I cleared my cache or manually signed-out.

Am I the only one?

[Rayne]

I never sign out of DGN. I just exit the window.

If I come back to DGN later, now I always have to sign in again.

I haven't changed my security levels or anything like that. This is only happening with the new changes. Prior, I only had to sign in if I cleared my cache or manually signed-out.

Am I the only one?

I always stayed signed in on my laptop ... haven't had a problem, except when I log in on my cell and forget to switch off invisible when I log back in on the laptop ...

[JaneDead]

i have been having problems today staying logged in too

[Gauge]

me to, pretty much everytime i reload or go to another page i get logged out

[Hellion]

me to, pretty much everytime i reload or go to another page i get logged out

Heh heh he heh!"she said log"heh heh heh heh heh!

[Brenda Starrr]

I'm not having that issue.

[Msterbeau]

I'm not having that issue.

Yeah. You got plenty of others. You don't need any more....

*Runs*

[Scary Guy]

I always have that issue, with every site. I kind of like it though for extra security :D

[Troy Spiral (13)]

The "cant stay logged" problem is almost universally an issue with cookies expiring or some other cookie related stuff. Since its the cookies that tell the website if you should be logged in already or should auto-log as soon as you click on the site etc.

When we moved servers the other day, i guess some of the cookies could have gotten screwed up (shouldnt have but i guess its possible) so your computer might be trying to use a "bad" cookie (old one that doesnt work with DGN anymore) or some such. And you need a new one.

Delete all your cookies, (or just the DGN ones if you care about such things) and just for overkill, delete all the offline files. Then, without clicking on ANYTHING, close your browser and open it back up again.

That should give you a "new" cookie, that wont expire for awhile. If that doesn't work, then either your security settings need to be lowered a bit or... or... I'm out of ideas.

If anyone specifically cant seem to stay logged in after doing the above at least twice, explain exactly what happens and I'll try to think of something.

[Fierce Critter]

Cleared cookies and all other cache content, and it appeared to work for a while maybe. But I'm back to having to re-log in.

My security settings are the same as they used to be, when I could stay logged in.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Actually now that im pondering it, since the whole "get the board to load faster" thing, almost everyting that can be cached , is cached. So, theoretically you could be viewing a (possibly any older-age) version of the main pages that you picked up just at the last moment after you cleared the cache.

So your browser pulls up the old site info (and the old cookie info) from your stored pages and when you post or some such, you asking the board for a specific update, which is expecting the "new" cookie becasue it talks directly to the site, not the stored pages.

So, you delete all your cookies. (as you did)

Then, when you come back to the (still cached , meaning stored) older-version (maybe even just minutes) of the site, you get the old, bad cookie again right away. Then , your in the same boat when trying to post as the posting action talks directly to the site (not the cached site in your browser) and wants the new cookie again.

I think , once your browser decides to get a fully new version of all the pages it will fix itself. Or, deleting everything (cookies, files etc) and then coming back will force the browser to load current versions of everything and there wont be a cookie mismatch. Sometimes for whatever fucked up reason, the browser keeps pulling up an older version of the website even after clearing the cache.

I guess there could be a (very unlikely) additional problem which was affecting users for about an hour after the server move... When you make a change to a website, really that change only happens on the particular server you just edited. It takes some time for that change to replicate around to all the nodes on the Internet. So that time-lag (usually very , very short) if extended a bit can also cause cookie problems. I guess its very remotely possible that the cookie mis-match could be due to this.

Also its fairly easy to accidentally change your security settings. Its just a slider bar, 2 misclicks and that thing can scroll and get confirmed fairly easy. Might want to re-set it to "default" just in case.

I know log in issues are fucking annoying as hell, i am trying to help. Its just there aren't a whole huge amount of possible problems that i can think of that are not either related to cookies, cache or security.

Maybe some sort of devloper tools that test login security running? (major long shot just thinking out loud)

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Oh oh... could be just as simple as not checking that box that says "remember me" , didnt think of that. doh.