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  • Lateralthinking1
    • Dec 2024

    Being shown as logged in when not, erm, logged in

    Has anyone found that they are shown as being logged in when they are not? It was happening just a moment ago to me before I logged in to write this message. My name was there and all I was doing was reading. Bizarre.
  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30448

    #2
    Originally posted by Lateralthinking1 View Post
    Has anyone found that they are shown as being logged in when they are not? It was happening just a moment ago to me before I logged in to write this message. My name was there and all I was doing was reading. Bizarre.
    Big Brother is watching you!

    But, no, I haven't noticed that. Do you physically log out each time you leave the forum?

    PS Your little green light isn't on atm and you're not listed as logged in, if that's any help.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Anna

      #3
      I don't log out but I go away to another site and when I come back, well, sometimes I am still logged in and sometimes although I can still read new messages, when I go to reply it says I am logged out. I think there is some time delay and that without activity your log in lapses. It's not a major problem.

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      • Don Petter

        #4
        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        I don't log out but I go away to another site and when I come back, well, sometimes I am still logged in and sometimes although I can still read new messages, when I go to reply it says I am logged out. I think there is some time delay and that without activity your log in lapses. It's not a major problem.
        The delay must be fairly long? I dip in and out most days, and never log out, but only occasionly do I get asked to log in again - perhaps a week or ten days between times.

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        • Anna

          #5
          No Don, I get logged out in a matter of around 3 hours or less. It's probably all to do with cookies.

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          • Paul Sherratt

            #6
            >>It's probably all to do with cookies.


            Not oatcakes ?

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            • Don Petter

              #7
              Originally posted by Anna View Post
              No Don, I get logged out in a matter of around 3 hours or less. It's probably all to do with cookies.
              Anna,

              Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong scenario. When I do have the forum open, it's probably never more than an hour or so without me looking at the What's New, so it's not 'unattended' for very long. Could that still fit with your experience?

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