Logging on to 5punk.

Post by **HereComesPete** » March 27th, 2008, 2:22

I mentioned this in passing to dog pants t'other night. I've always had to log in on each visit to the site, despite clicking the automatic logon tick box. I can occasionally close FF for a bit and re-open it and I'll still be logged in, but sometimes I won't. Have I missed some option in the profile gubbins to click? I don't clear history/recent pages cache so 5punky cookies should still be there. My user/pass are all saved by FF so all I have to do is click a button. Is that what it's meant to do or should I be able to turn on my pc and open FF, let it load 5punk and then I'll be logged in? I'm not really pissed off by this, I'm mostly being lazy.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » March 27th, 2008, 2:43

Is 5punk the only site that doesn't remember logins next time you load firefox?

If yes, then I suspect it is a setting that you are now allowing cookies to persist once the browser as closed.

If no, then I would perhaps consider deleting all your cookies and seeing if that fixes it.

Post by **HereComesPete** » March 27th, 2008, 3:57

I think it is yes. Flickr/facebook/ebuyer etc all keep me logged in or only log me out after a long period of inactivity.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 27th, 2008, 10:59

Have a poke around Tools -> Options -> Privacy Tab.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » March 27th, 2008, 11:50

Yeah, sometimes cookies get messed up. Try deleting any 5punk cookies. That fixes most things- it's the web's equivalent of turning things off and on again.

Post by **TezzRexx** » March 27th, 2008, 19:49

I also have this problem along with the "posts not read" disappearing, which is quite frustrating. I'm guessing this is a cookie related problem too?

Post by **deject** » March 27th, 2008, 19:58

since we're airing grievances, if I click on the new post link on my desktop it basically marks every post in the entire forum (including the disco board) as read. What's weird is that this will happen with a brand new installation of Windows and Firefox, and it only happens with my desktop. My laptop and other PCs do it just fine. I've deleted the 5punk cookie before, but I think I should try it again.

Post by **HereComesPete** » March 27th, 2008, 22:12

I get that too. I gave up using that method to jump to new posts because I started to miss entire threads until they got to be pages long because another thread was the only one showing up as having a new post. I also get the problem that Tezz gets with new posts showing up, but then sometimes just disappearing even though I haven't read them.

I've deleted everything now, passwords, cookies, emptied the entire private data jobber, no change. Fresh installs of FF don't seem to fix it either. I can get it to stay logged in with IE, but that really doesn't help much because I don't use IE because I think it's a bit bloated, slow and shit.

I'm guessing it's settings in privacy mixed with quirks in each of our OS' as opposed to teh codez on the server end because it's only a few that seem to experience the problem.

Post by **HereComesPete** » March 27th, 2008, 22:19

On the plus side I did find that I was getting a cookie called 207.net back despite my deleting of it and not actually visiting that site. It's basically a semi-legitimate data miner provide for google/yahoo etc so they can point stuff in their sponsored links at you that might tempt you. So I blocked that at least.

editz- I think I've sorted the cookies out. Had to reinstall FF and then reset cookies to until they expire then get a fresh 5punky cookie (limp biscuit?) and it seems to have sorted itself out.