Forum update

[t-ice]

Thanks to the people who updates the forums. Seems I can use this now, without being kicked to automagically log out every few minutes

[Veilan]

Thanks to the people who updates the forums. Seems I can use this now, without being kicked to automagically log out every few minutes

Crap .

(Also, that would be Hialmar these days! Three cheers for the frenchman.)

[Hialmar]

Good for you.

It seems for others it's the contrary. They are now being logged out automatically from time to time while before it worked like a charm.

Ah well complex computer systems are always full of bugs anyway

[t-ice]

Looks like I do have to click the cookie deleter everytime, or it behaves funny. First try couldn't log in at all, second try made the forums go silver-style and loose "embeddability". Seems to work like a charm by clicking the cookie deleter every time coming in, though. Hope this might help you swat some bugs.

[dirsa]

just fyi -

before i would stay logged in on my pc using firefox, may be had to relog once a week or something. at work on mac using safari i got kicked out within minutes. sometimes couldn't write a pm or forum post...

now safari works fine on mac, i get logged out on pc with firefox however. although it does keep session alive until i close browser window.

[Hialmar]

I'll try to look at this asap but if it's different for every person it's very hard to reproduce so I'm not sure I'll find a solution.

[dirsa]

my best guess is that it's how different browsers handle cookie expiration dates... or sessions are used until you close browser window?

[Veilan]

Been using the /phpBB3 link since time immemorial, and Opera as browser. Never had any issues. *knocks on wood*

[fluffmonster]

Been using the /phpBB3 link since time immemorial, .... Never had any issues. *knocks on wood*

http://www.alandfaraway.org/phpBB3

Direct link to forums that does not invoke the rest of the website. Try it and see if you still have cookie issues? Login is at the bottom.

[Hialmar]

People still having problems with the website/forum update should try manually clearing their cookies.

This is presented in detail for several web browsers here:
http://www.flitehaus.com/blog/2010-09-1 ... ore-update

[Rotku]

I just noticed that horrible YOU HAVE A NEW PRIVATE MESSAGE message isn't popping up any more these days. Thank you Hialmar! That was one of the most annoying things ever - the number of posts that got lost through that... grrrr.

As a side note, I'm officially adding Hialmar to my computers dictionary. I'm getting fed up of it telling me it isn't a word.

[Hialmar]

Ah maybe I forgot to re-enable that.

If no-one asks for it I won't re-enable it.

If some do we'll have a poll.

Edit: looks like it is enabled. There is a bug somewhere.

[Mirabai]

Well there seems to be a pop-up window now which says you have a new message, instead of it taking you to a totally new page. I disabled pop-ups for ALFA because it's just annoying to me, but it's nowhere NEAR as annoying as that business with it taking you to a whole new page just to say you have a new PM.

[Hialmar]

Ah maybe they modified it to that.

[Hialmar]

I have noted that since I changed the destination address of forums@alandfaraway.org to point to mine instead of zic's I now receive again e-mails to warn me that I have new PMs.

Is it the same for everyone ?

Note: the option to receive e-mails when new PMs are sent to you is in your "User Control Panel" ("Notify me on new private messages" in "Board Preferences").