Who Maintains the Forums?
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Posted on: 2010-11-01 24:07 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Sorry, I'm with Castle on this one. Pretty sure it's more than a simple cookie expiry.|
Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
I know that Castle responded a while back, voicing an opinion that it was a bug. Still doesn't make it a bug.
Default lifetime for a vBulletin cookie is a 1 day logon. It CAN be changed. And I've given them the information to do so. But there may be other considerations besides simple technical feasibility (CAN this be done) of changing it on a bog-standard install, as NCSoft's version has been customized to interface with their authentication servers. |
Got this one last week on top of the spontaneous kick outs (not just a 24 hour timer on the kick out):
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I have the box checked and I can get logged off 3 or more times within a few hours some days and go days without getting booted.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Again, if you check the "remember me" box when logging on, you are NOT being "constantly" logged off. Only once every 24 hours.
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total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Granted. But I wasn't speaking to these issues.
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Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Being constantly logged off, even after logging back in; losing thread read status; losing the boards COMPLETELY for 15 or so minutes several times a day where either it just refuses to let you log in, or sometimes just spits back a DNS error, is not WAI.
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I'm not? Weird. Cos, like Swellguy above, I can go for days without being logged off and then get kicked out multiple times in an hour. It appears to have gotten better lately (touch wood) but how long it lasts.... who knows.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Again, if you check the "remember me" box when logging on, you are NOT being "constantly" logged off. Only once every 24 hours.
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Anyone else been getting a lot of database errors?
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I have been getting many of these recently
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Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Sorry, I'm with Castle on this one. Pretty sure it's more than a simple cookie expiry.
Got this one last week on top of the spontaneous kick outs (not just a 24 hour timer on the kick out): |
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This defect arose back when they first applied the new look-n-feel to the forums, then seemed to die down until just before Going Rogue launched. |
Originally Posted by Diggis
I'm not? Weird. Cos, like Swellguy above, I can go for days without being logged off and then get kicked out multiple times in an hour. It appears to have gotten better lately (touch wood) but how long it lasts.... who knows.
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I can't say for sure, and it's been a bit since I worked with PHP, but it seems VERY similar to what I used to encounter when running PHP load-balanced across several servers. While the state data is supposed to be shared between servers to give a "seamless" user experience, it's sometimes dropped or delayed, particularly when one server's settings get misaligned from the others. Some code is more tolerant of this than others-- for example, checking for the data and requesting it when it's missing, rather than just blindly executing, expecting the data to be there.
It's just a blind guess, as I don't know their environment, but with the added traffic that the expansion brought, its possible that an underused auxiliary server's now getting more load sent its way, and our 'logouts' are being caused by being switched to these, along with the dropped state/session data.
It's a bug, and a known one at that, that they cannot reproduce. I have redname PMs to the fact, and they are all recent.
I used to never be auto-logged off. Ever. Ever ever ever.
Now it can happen an unlimited amount of times within moments. I once had it happen eight times in five minutes.
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Hehe. I clicked on the thread to check the latest discussion, and suddenly see everyone's signatures. I log back in, and now the singatures are out-of-sight, so the forum has become a much better place. (-:
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Your comments may, or may not, be accurate. However, they are completely irrelevant. The forum is BUGGED. It logs people out repeatedly and at random intervals. I do not have the forum remember me. I LOG OUT every time I finish reading. And it logs me out whenever it feels like it, while I'm reading.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
I know that Castle responded a while back, voicing an opinion that it was a bug. Still doesn't make it a bug.
Default lifetime for a vBulletin cookie is a 1 day logon. It CAN be changed. And I've given them the information to do so. But there may be other considerations besides simple technical feasibility (CAN this be done) of changing it on a bog-standard install, as NCSoft's version has been customized to interface with their authentication servers. |
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Just kicked out. Again.
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/em Marvin the Martian "That makes me so angry." |
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Just kicked out. Again.
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total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
Bumps because I was logged out again...
I had to log in. "Remember Me" must mean "Don't Remember Me"!
Got the Wrong Password, Moron message three times this morning. Had to come back this afternoon before I could get in.
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Who are you again?
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
I had to log in. "Remember Me" must mean "Don't Remember Me"!
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Biggest Troll on the forums? I'll give you a hint:
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
I had to log in. "Remember Me" must mean "Don't Remember Me"!
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Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Who are you again?
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Forgotten again! *sobs*
Same here. That's twice today.
Maybe it's not a bug, after all.
Maybe it's intentional.
Maybe it's some wacky pop psychology attempt at...
FORUM DIVERSIFICATION
... meant to keep us from posting too often in the same thread. Or something. Ha ha. But it's darned peculiar that it's taking whoever is supposed to fix it so long to fix it...
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Whenever he tries to publish his changes to test them, the server denies him write access because it keeps logging him out.
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Originally Posted by Flarstux
But it's darned peculiar that it's taking whoever is supposed to fix it so long to fix it...
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And here we go again. Replied to a post. Noticed that underneath my avatar the online/offline thing said I was offline. Scrolled up, and yup - I'd been logged off of the forums.
Same here. It logged me out just going from one page to another.
It's getting so these forums are pretty useless what with stupid rules and crappy software
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Hey, I'm all in favor of stupid rules. I feel more ornery when I break them on purpose. And "Thou shalt not point out the rules to those who break them" has never been a rule, so it gets really fun after a while.
What gets me is that when I'm on my father's computer, I don't experience this problem.
My computer does experience this issue. There would be times that I'm responding to a post and get my message all typed in and I get something that tells me that I need to log in. Made me mad that I lost the message in the process.
Can you see why I'm confused at to what may be the issue?
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Oh great. The forum forgot my user/pass again. Had to type it in three times, all of which were carefully input with the first two netting the "incorrect user/pass" message.
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Default lifetime for a vBulletin cookie is a 1 day logon. It CAN be changed. And I've given them the information to do so. But there may be other considerations besides simple technical feasibility (CAN this be done) of changing it on a bog-standard install, as NCSoft's version has been customized to interface with their authentication servers.
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