Logging In Weekly?!?!

[Valleygolfer]

5 minutes ago, Buckeyebowman said:

Yes, I had to log in twice! In two days! And because whatever it is that remembers my password didn't work, I'm forced to jump through hoops! So sorry that I'm not as computer literate as the great master!

I like new features as long as they are easy to access.

Here's my assessment of my computer acumen.I left click, I right click, and sometimes I double click left. That's about it! Oh! And I can scroll up and down with the wheel on my mouse! Wow!

I think you need to understand that all your users aren't ciber gurus out here!

Are you 70 years old? Geez. The password save function is on your end. Really very low end stuff. Calm down buckeye. No offense to computer literate 70 year olds. 

Edited August 5, 2017 by Valleygolfer

[Missouri Swede]

On 7/25/2017 at 1:48 PM, Missouri Swede said:

Bumping an old thread, rather than starting a new one.

Since the end of last week, I'm having to log in on this forum a lot, on my iPad, iPhone, MBP, and also on an android tablet.  Usually don't ever have to log in at all. 

I recall that there were updates to iOS and macOS last week, but that wouldn't explain why it's now happening with android as well. Other websites aren't giving me this same problem--just TST. 

 

On 7/26/2017 at 4:27 PM, iacas said:

Not that I know of. Do those things, yes.

I had deleted cache and history on each of my devices back on 7/26, and the problem persisted. (My logs in were set to remember me.) I don't know why, but the problem appears to have resolved today. 

[Buckeyebowman]

21 hours ago, Valleygolfer said:

Are you 70 years old? Geez. The password save function is on your end. Really very low end stuff. Calm down buckeye. No offense to computer literate 70 year olds. 

Actually pretty close to it! I'll turn 65 next month. When it was my turn to learn about computers they were still large machines with tape drives, housed in glass walled air conditioned rooms, tended to by people in white lab coats!

And they still programmed with Fortran on punch cards! Remember "Don't fold, bend, spindle, or mutilate"? I do!

I am not unintelligent, but, I suppose, like many people my age I'm not all that comfortable with change, especially if there's no advance warning. Whoever the software developers are who created this latest iteration of the "The Sand Trap", I see you working! You've tried to keep the appearance the same, as much as possible, but there are changes. In your post Valley, the "reputation heart" symbol is different than it was before.

And after resetting my password for the third time in three days, the little box that comes up asking if Microsoft or whoever should remember my password, changed to should The Sandtrap RESET my password. That sounds a bit more like what I want to happen.

I'll just soldier on and see how it goes.

 

OK! I just soldiered on and got screwed again! Tried twice to post the above reply with no success. Re-rentered the thread and scrolled to see if it had posted without me being able to see it. Nope! Then I found out I had to log on again! Don't try to tell me something isn't going on here! I know web forums have issues when the software is changed. I also know this is necessary because websites of this type are under constant attack by hackers. I just wish things were thought out a bit more in advance, and users were warned of the disruption possible.

[iacas]

19 minutes ago, Buckeyebowman said:

I am not unintelligent, but, I suppose, like many people my age I'm not all that comfortable with change, especially if there's no advance warning. Whoever the software developers are who created this latest iteration of the "The Sand Trap", I see you working! You've tried to keep the appearance the same, as much as possible, but there are changes. In your post Valley, the "reputation heart" symbol is different than it was before.

Yep. One of the features is that you can now be more specific with why you're giving a little reputation.

19 minutes ago, Buckeyebowman said:

And after resetting my password for the third time in three days, the little box that comes up asking if Microsoft or whoever should remember my password, changed to should The Sandtrap RESET my password. That sounds a bit more like what I want to happen.

I'll just soldier on and see how it goes.

OK! I just soldiered on and got screwed again! Tried twice to post the above reply with no success. Re-rentered the thread and scrolled to see if it had posted without me being able to see it. Nope! Then I found out I had to log on again! Don't try to tell me something isn't going on here! I know web forums have issues when the software is changed. I also know this is necessary because websites of this type are under constant attack by hackers. I just wish things were thought out a bit more in advance, and users were warned of the disruption possible.

It's pretty much just you. But you also seem to have finally checked the "remember me?" checkbox.

[Valleygolfer]

32 minutes ago, Buckeyebowman said:

Actually pretty close to it! I'll turn 65 next month. When it was my turn to learn about computers they were still large machines with tape drives, housed in glass walled air conditioned rooms, tended to by people in white lab coats!

And they still programmed with Fortran on punch cards! Remember "Don't fold, bend, spindle, or mutilate"? I do!

I am not unintelligent, but, I suppose, like many people my age I'm not all that comfortable with change, especially if there's no advance warning. Whoever the software developers are who created this latest iteration of the "The Sand Trap", I see you working! You've tried to keep the appearance the same, as much as possible, but there are changes. In your post Valley, the "reputation heart" symbol is different than it was before.

And after resetting my password for the third time in three days, the little box that comes up asking if Microsoft or whoever should remember my password, changed to should The Sandtrap RESET my password. That sounds a bit more like what I want to happen.

I'll just soldier on and see how it goes.

 

OK! I just soldiered on and got screwed again! Tried twice to post the above reply with no success. Re-rentered the thread and scrolled to see if it had posted without me being able to see it. Nope! Then I found out I had to log on again! Don't try to tell me something isn't going on here! I know web forums have issues when the software is changed. I also know this is necessary because websites of this type are under constant attack by hackers. I just wish things were thought out a bit more in advance, and users were warned of the disruption possible.

I'd suggest a different browser but your head might explode.

38 minutes ago, Missouri Swede said:

 

I had deleted cache and history on each of my devices back on 7/26, and the problem persisted. (My logs in were set to remember me.) I don't know why, but the problem appears to have resolved today. 

My suspicion is that they update the site and possibly find another bug and update it again. Not sure this is correct but it seems like the login is reset at least twice with updates.

[iacas]

https://thesandtrap.com/settings/devices/

You can all see this page now, too. (It's new in 4.2.x.)

[jsgolfer]

14 hours ago, iacas said:

Yep. One of the features is that you can now be more specific with why you're giving a little reputation.

It's pretty much just you. But you also seem to have finally checked the "remember me?" checkbox.

He's not the only one.  I've had to re-log back in, often. And I've always clicked the remember me checkbox.  Sometimes  it happens several times a day from my IPAD and IPhone and other times not at all.  I just deal with it.  Takes and extra couple of clicks.

[b101]

I like the changes and the way the site looks - haven't had to log in more than once since they happened either.

[iacas]

13 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

He's not the only one.  I've had to re-log back in, often. And I've always clicked the remember me checkbox.  Sometimes  it happens several times a day from my IPAD and IPhone and other times not at all.  I just deal with it.  Takes and extra couple of clicks.

Let me know if that's been happening in the past few days. They made changes to the log-in stuff. Basically, each time you log in, it extends a key, and sometimes two keys could get out of sync or something. This really only ever happened if you used multiple devices.

Like you, Jerry… you're logged in to eight different devices.

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Automatic Login will happen if the user checked the Remember Me box when logging in within the last 3 months and has not logged out on that device since.

That's the time period wherein things can get goofy and the keys can become mismatched. Sometimes when you log in on a new device it can reset the login on other devices. Supposedly they've fixed this, but very occasionally it could cause problems.

You two are still in a small minority, though. No consolation I understand… but not much I can do here.

9 minutes ago, b101 said:

I like the changes and the way the site looks - haven't had to log in more than once since they happened either.

Thanks. There's a small bug with the search bar, but I "kinda" worked around that for most by changing up the menu slightly.

[jsgolfer]

21 minutes ago, iacas said:

Let me know if that's been happening in the past few days. They made changes to the log-in stuff. Basically, each time you log in, it extends a key, and sometimes two keys could get out of sync or something. This really only ever happened if you used multiple devices.

Like you, Jerry… you're logged in to eight different devices.

That's the time period wherein things can get goofy and the keys can become mismatched. Sometimes when you log in on a new device it can reset the login on other devices. Supposedly they've fixed this, but very occasionally it could cause problems.

You two are still in a small minority, though. No consolation I understand… but not much I can do here.

Thanks. There's a small bug with the search bar, but I "kinda" worked around that for most by changing up the menu slightly.

Yeah just happened right now, had to re-log in.  Should only have 3 devices?  My computer at work, my IPAD and my IPHONE.  But I have used my wife's computer and IPAD as well in the past, although I thought I logged out of those, but as you get older your memory starts to go.  

[iacas]

2 minutes ago, jsgolfer said:

Yeah just happened right now, had to re-log in.  Should only have 3 devices?  My computer at work, my IPAD and my IPHONE.  But I have used my wife's computer and IPAD as well in the past, although I thought I logged out of those, but as you get older your memory starts to go.  

https://thesandtrap.com/settings/devices/

Look for yourself. You can log yourself out of all of the devices you don't frequently use. Try that - it may help things.

[jsgolfer]

7 minutes ago, iacas said:

https://thesandtrap.com/settings/devices/

Look for yourself. You can log yourself out of all of the devices you don't frequently use. Try that - it may help things.

Happened again, so logged out of everything but the IPAD I'm currently on,let's see if that helps.

[Buckeyebowman]

23 hours ago, iacas said:

Yep. One of the features is that you can now be more specific with why you're giving a little reputation.

It's pretty much just you. But you also seem to have finally checked the "remember me?" checkbox.

Oddly enough, the "remember me" box was "pre-clicked"! And I logged in today problem free!

Don't try to fool me! I see you working!