Logging in.

Ah, brilliant! Thanks. At least I now know its nothing to do with my new phone etc.

 

Yo,

I have now become one of those suffering from log-in wonkiness. No idea how to work around that but if you should not hear from me when necessary that could be the cause.

To add: I'm on a Mac using Firefox which handles PWs and log-ins normally without issue, except here for some unknown reason ...?

Later: Noticed that I can only log in on Home/Forum but if I move to Recent Posts I'm shown logged out. So must get to wherever I wish to post by moving from Home and avoiding Recent Posts, if that makes any sense. Highly inconvenient and hopefully only a momentary glitch. The same problem is also occurring in Safari which I never use for browsing.

Regards ...

 

Gotcha !?

• Usernames have become case-sensitive
• I used to get away with "red goblin"
• But just mousing over a red flag would lately KO me w/o reason
• But now "Red Goblin" seems to have fixed that idiocy
• Passwords logically need to remain case-sensitive
• Cache automatically cleared between sessions
• Cookies similarly self-destruct c/o a browser extension

Sorry about long list - for the sake of clarity - and let's hope it helps nail this unbridled server security madness !

Steve
... Wot, no solution feedback ?

 

Talking of which, it was my Pale Moon PW list which drew my case anomaly to my attention just as I was beginning to wonder about such things.

 

I haven't been able to log into the forum using my laptop for just over a week.
I get a red banner message "cookies are required to log into this site..."
...so I go to Firefox cookie settings & 'whitelist' this site, but still no joy.
I'm thinking that the message is not describing the real issue, so will play some more unless a better suggestion comes along.

 

Thanks for your advice.

Looking once again at this issue, I'm pretty sure that your site has recently turned a bit grumpy because I'm blocking a google Javascript library on that laptop. Its always been blocked, so not sure why its suddenly a problem. (Maybe another "I'm not a robot" issue.)

But not to worry, its my problem, not yours.

 

My main laptop is screwed down pretty tightly to avoid as much crap as possible, as its used for important stuff like home banking. So I routinely block as much Javascript as possible and usually cookies too ...that's why I said its probably my problem.

But I have an old laptop that I use that's wide-open (for my google blogs), so I'll probably just login to this forum on this machine in future when I feel the need to comment, rather than simply observe.

Thanks once again.

 

Logging in is only part of the problem.
I have begun apologising to new members seeking help with Service Records etc.
I cant get back once I've researched their queries and we get out of synch with each other when there are more posting.
The contact often drops out but is less problem late at night.
Often get multiple copies of responses.

Currently blaming the outage mentioned on the news.
Think it really is at the moment, as the past week has been awful.
The net seems to be overloaded.

 

As I mentioned in the previous post, I'm sure that a certificate on one of the web servers has expired or failed to renew.

You will eventually get in when you are directed to a web server that has a valid certificate - most websites are load-balanced across multiple servers. Once you are in, most web servers have a form of 'stickiness' that assigns your connection to that server for a period of time. I was fine for a few weeks but recently had to do the try-and-login-a-hundred-times-dance, but once I was successful, everything has been fine.

I would ask the web hosting company to check the certificate statuses on the hosting web servers, although I'm surprised they do not have automated certificate renewals (unless they do and it has failed, but this should have alerted).

 

When I hit the "stay logged in " button, it keeps asking me to prove I am not a robot.. over.. and over... and over..

 

No complaints, just an alert.

Extremely difficult for me to access the board for the past several days: I have a few super-fast and reliable Internet connectiond, but more often than not the pages time-out and fail to load.

The old problem about getting logged out remains, but that's a minor concern relative to this new one.

Lots of this (timed out again three times trying to upload this image and four times trying to post):

 

Seconded. Site has been timing out regularly for 6+ weeks and it's getting worse. Can be virtually unreachable for an hour or two during prime Europe evening/NAmerica daytime hours. I've never had trouble staying logged in, but thinking it might be related have taken to trying hard refreshes and they help at times for the length of a visit (30-60 mins). To my inexpert eye, there is something going on with authentication. The Random Media panel on web also regularly fails or spins endlessly, indicating generally slow server responses.

 

I agree, the site is slow to respond most days now. As soon as I try any other site there is no problem so it is confined to here unfortunately and is not a browser issue.

 

Yup, same problem here. Site inaccessible. I often get a warnings that Computer detected malware and therefore closed access down.

 

Hmmm… can't reach this pagewww.ww2talk.com took too long to respond

Been getting this for weeks getting worse.

Dare not post long comments as it drops off line.

Uploading pics can take ages.

Don't use the forum in the evenings watch telly or YT videos instead.

 

Yes this has been happening to me, it's especially bad in the evenings and it won't load. Not been particularly fast this morning, I had to have a few goes at it.

I do wonder if the evening problems stem from how many people are online, sometimes it's over 3000.

Edit -my apologies for posting this. Now I understand after reading Adam's response above. Serves me right, I really should read previous posts first .

Lesley

 

Much better today. Bitching works!