Site Admins vanished or just dont care ?

Kaine

New member
Is anyone else now totally annoyed they have to log back in constantly despite paying to help support the site and avoid the ads ?

Now i\'m not grating on the moderators, they do a great job.

But the actual site admins seem to have vanished without a care for fixing the issue.

The mod\'s have passed the issue on, but its been weeks now, i know we dont pay much for the ability to avoid ads, but we do pay.
 

Arma

New member
I noticed the log in thing too... I\'m sure there\'s a way to avoid it by screwing around with cookies but I\'m just lazy.

DRINK! :drunk:
 

BarstoolProphet

New member
This actually appears to be a Windows update issue, and not one for this site in particular. The latest security update seems to think it\'s a bad idea to leave yourself logged in to any web site.

I have been having to log in to every site I visit at least once per hour if I don\'t stay constantly active on them.

Or maybe my computer just hates me?
 

Gilvan Blight

New member
Noticed this myself, and it always seems to log me out in the middle of a forum post, a long one, where I end up with the you are not allowed to post on this forum error after all my work.

I also think it may be a Windows or internet exporer issue. To test it I will swap to Firefox when at home and see if I have the same problem, don\'t expect to be on here long enough to find out tonight for sure though.
 

PegaZus

Stealth Freak
Originally posted by Gilvan Blight
I also think it may be a Windows or internet exporer issue. To test it I will swap to Firefox when at home and see if I have the same problem, don\'t expect to be on here long enough to find out tonight for sure though.

Don\'t both. I\'m exclusively Firefox and have the same issue.
 

tooshy

Active member
Phew! I thought it was just me. It\'s so damn annoying having to login everytime, plus I got logged out whilst I was typing a post just like Gilvan experienced.

It\'s especially inconvenient if I access the site during my lunchtimes at work because I get the embarassing \'dodgy\' adverts so I have to log in as fast as I can to remove them :mad:
 

Bill

New member
I had to log in again just to type this post. I\'m on Firefox too, on a Mac. I really can\'t be arsed with CMON these days! :no:
 

Kaine

New member
It may well have been created by an update of some sort (although the fact it is effecting mac users as well makes me doubt that).

I think its probably something that can be fixed fairly easily, i mean plenty of other sites work fine, amazon ,etc.

Its not difficult to have a site store cookie details of your login and log you in each time you visit the page, it can even be set to check your still a \"subscriber\" and remove the \"no-ad\" cookie if you stop paying.

The main gripe i have is i\'ve posted about this a few times and emailed the admins (via the main page link) twice as well.

And we\'ve not even got a post that says \"were looking at it\".

Its been broke too long which makes me wonder if the people that own the site are simply leaving the moderators to run it while they collect the ad revenue without any real enthusiasm in developing the site anymore.

I hope thats not true, but ....
 

freakinacage

Well-known member
Originally posted by Bill
I had to log in again just to type this post. I\'m on Firefox too, on a Mac. I really can\'t be arsed with CMON these days! :no:
well you are here now so you obviously can be arsed!! :p
 

No Such Agency

New member
Originally posted by Gilvan Blight
Noticed this myself, and it always seems to log me out in the middle of a forum post, a long one, where I end up with the you are not allowed to post on this forum error after all my work.
I have this happen on FF sometimes (or I just don\'t notice I\'m not logged-in), but if I hit BACK my post is still there. Just ctrl-C your text before you hit \"post\" just in case :)

I wish logging in while posting actually worked. I get \"password incorrect\" every time (it\'s not).
 

Bill

New member
Originally posted by freakinacage
Originally posted by Bill
I had to log in again just to type this post. I\'m on Firefox too, on a Mac. I really can\'t be arsed with CMON these days! :no:
well you are here now so you obviously can be arsed!! :p
I can always be arsed to whine :]
 

Einion

New member
Originally posted by BarstoolProphet
This actually appears to be a Windows update issue, and not one for this site in particular. The latest security update seems to think it\'s a bad idea to leave yourself logged in to any web site.
Hmm, that sounds like it might be right. And because it\'s Microsoft I officially have to :flame:

Originally posted by BarstoolProphet
I have been having to log in to every site I visit at least once per hour if I don\'t stay constantly active on them.
Not quite that bad for me, but LOTS more often than normal.


Originally posted by No Such Agency
Just ctrl-C your text before you hit \"post\" just in case :)
Very important tip that.

Amazing how few people think of it... even after they\'ve had the worst-case scenario of losing a post that took 10+ minutes to write.

Einion
 

matty1001

New member
I\'v never had any problems with Safari.

And yea, apple-c is a good tip. I always tend to type long posts in text edit first. Then paste them in.
 

Fizl

Secret Crocodile
I get logged out on safari, firefox, ie and opera, and thats on mac and PC

its not a windows thing - sorry!

Shaz
 

SJB

New member
Safari on Mac here and I get logged out all the time. Rare to come back to the site and still be logged in. Yeah, it\'s annoying.
 

Gilvan Blight

New member
I\'m pretty sure this thread just confirmed that it\'s not a cool mini thing and that it happens on other sites.

This isn\'t the only place I need to log back into each time I visit, and often have to log back in while visiting.
 

supervike

Super Moderator
Just so you know, Chern has been doing some tweaks behind the scenes....I hope this is one of the fixes.

I don\'t think its a matter of not caring, its just a matter of available time.

But to be honest, I\'d rather have the hassle of having to log-in everytime as opposed to being deluged with porn.
 

NINJAWIZARD

New member
It\'s not the pr0n ads, Vike. For me, the irritation is the pop-under ads. IE blocks them at work, but at home I run Firefox, and even though my pop-up blocker is set, it doesn\'t catch \'em. It\'s even crashed my browser a few times when I close the pop-under.

I never used to have to log back in every time I visit. But as of mid-February, I noticed I had to log in each time.
 
S

Shadzar

Guest
Originally posted by supervike
Just so you know, Chern has been doing some tweaks behind the scenes....I hope this is one of the fixes.

I don\'t think its a matter of not caring, its just a matter of available time.

But to be honest, I\'d rather have the hassle of having to log-in everytime as opposed to being deluged with porn.
you can stay logged in all the time and still not have the porn ads.


bool setcookie ( string $name [, string $value [, int $expire [, string $path [, string $domain [, bool $secure [, bool $httponly ]]]]]])

expire

The time the cookie expires. This is a Unix timestamp so is in number of seconds since the epoch. In other words, you\'ll most likely set this with the time() function plus the number of seconds before you want it to expire. Or you might use mktime(). time()+60*60*24*30 will set the cookie to expire in 30 days. If set to 0, or omitted, the cookie will expire at the end of the session (when the browser closes).


60 seconds times 60 minutes times 24 hours times 30 days = 30 days in the above example.

the mktime() would be fine with me set the time and date for sometime like jan 1 2011.

just means people would need to rememebr to log out of CMoN when in a place where someone else could access their computer.

don\'t know if these are part of the PHP version CMoN runs on, but am pretty sure the admins (and some mods) already know these things.

just clearifying for others it is possible to not have the site log you out all the time. this is a good way to test browsers to see which is giving an error if any.

xmblva, xmblvb, and PHPSESSID are currently the only cookies i have from CMON.com. the forums have only 5 cokkies for them as well.

prior to DR (thanks) reseting or whatever my account to fix errors i was having viewing parts of the site other than the forums i had all kinds of other cookies in both the main domain, and forums cookies. as i figured then it may have had something to do with the ads trying to place cookies and hijack the CMoN cookies.

i know some sites do this inadvertantly, and so blatantly do it. but whatever recent changes Chern has made in the NEWS forums it was mentioned has done some good. or DR found the magic account button that will fix anyhting wrong with a reset of the accounts.

but that would be a pain for them to have to reset all accounts that have special features to go back and turn them on....

anywho. i see the admins doing stuff to fix things. more could be done i agre, but they are here doing things (after trips/vacation) now that they are no so busy. borg is updating the shop quite often.

my only real problem with the site as far as logging in is probably as i mentioned the expiring time for the cookie. haven\'t tried IE lately to log in since firefox can block some things i don\'t want to see better when visintg CMoN, but currently all is working fine. no otehr sites has caused me any problems save for when the cookie was scheduled to expire anyway.

make sure your browser is set correctly after ANY update for windows. they always like to change things the way they want your computer to run, rather than they way you want it to run during updates! :cussing:
 
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