Bug Report #17 Let the Creativity Roll or Heaven Help Us All

[joelippard]

Robert

I also am having trouble with the log in feature remembering me.  What do I need to do on my machine to correct this?

 

[Unimatic1140]

I also am having trouble with the log in feature remembering me.  What do I need to do on my machine to correct this?

To be honest guys I'm not sure myself, I will look into it when I get a chance.  Please forgive the inconvenience.  I'm not having this issue on any of my computers.

Question if you are logged-in and hit shift + refresh a few a times, then close your browser and reopen it, does it then remember you are logged in?
I couldn't help myself.

Thanks Eric, I'll upload your edit later when I have a chance.

 

[mayguy]

I'm having issue too with my log in, it don't know me when I come back.

 

[Unimatic1140]

I appologize to you guys who are reporting log-in issues and have to re-log in again when they return. I'm tring to find a computer where this is happening and I have not been able to, every computer I try remembers me after closing and reopening the browser. I'm not at home so its a bit of challenge, I'll keep looking.

 

[Unimatic1140]

It just dawned on me that I believe for users who are using the latest version of Firefox, in order for your login to be remembered you must have your "remember history" set properly on the Privacy Tab...

 

[earthling177]

OK, the "problem" I'm having is not the same as having to login every time, but I suppose the symptoms are close enough that it might be what others are seeing.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; ">I see the first page on the site (http://automaticwasher.org/) and click, say "Super" and then I get a plain page without the wash/rinse/spin buttons, and it does look like I'm logged out, except for the fact that the top right corner tells me I'm logged in and have over 200 days upgraded. Sometimes if I hit the Reload button it corrects itself after 2 or 3 times.</span>


What does fix the problem reliably is to simply click the "Super" button again and it loads appropriately.


I attached a screen capture of the problem. I'm using Safari 5.0.2 and MacOS X 10.6.4, for what's worth.

 

[sudsmaster]

Robert,

Sorry for the delay in responding. This is the first I've read your response to my report.

Unfortunately I don't recall at this time what thread/post I was composing when the bug happened. However, I was creating it fresh, not cutting and pasting from a text editor etc.

Hope your latest changes have fixed the problem. I'll let you know if it recurs.

(this was composed with advanced editing set to OFF)

 

[a440]

Hello Paulo!
Thanks for pointing this out.
This is the same problem that I am having and I did not realize it till I did a little "test" like yours.
Mine also shows everything that Paulo gave as an example.  I never noticed that before.  If I click on any thread; Imperial, etc.  It looks like I am not signed in.  If I start clicking around to any other thread, then it looks like I am signed in with the "wash" phases showing.
Hope this helps.
Paulo thanks for pointing this out.
Same on this end.
Brent

 

[Unimatic1140]

Paulo, you are a genius!  Thank you for pointing that out.  I would have never figured that out without actually seeing someone's computer that is doing it.

I stole your graphic and changed it slightly.  Notice in your address bar you are viewing the "_NS" version of the index pages.  _NS version of the page is the version of the page that users who are not logged in see.  Once you log in the system redirects you to the non _NS (or logged in) version of the index page.  So now my question now is how are you getting to this page???  What steps are you taking to get there, does it only happen when you first start your browser after you closed it?  Is there a chance that you guys might have saved the non-logged in version of the page to your favorites bar????

Once you click any other page and go back to the index it takes you back to the correct non-_NS page.

Rich thank you for your update, I believe that I might have fixed that particular bug, please keep me updated if you notice anything else odd.

 

[jeffg]

Robert, the End key used to take me to the very end of a thread, now it goes to wherever it thinks is the end, depending on how much of the thread has loaded. Can the previous functionality be restored?

 

[a440]

Robert,
On both computers I have always just typed Automaticwasher.org in the address bar.
Since the changes on the home page it has acted as though I am not signed in. 
I have cleaned my cache and such on my PC to see if it would change things but it has not.
So Mysterious!
Brent

 

[earthling177]

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px; "></span><tbody>So now my question now is how are you getting to this page???  What steps are you taking to get there, does it only happen when you first start your browser after you closed it?  Is there a chance that you guys might have saved the non-logged in version of the page to your favorites bar????

<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Well, I get to that page in one of two ways: either I type www.automaticwasher.org on the address bar or I click the icon on the Safari Top Pages. From there I click one of buttons to go to a forum. They all say "_NS" on the status bar when I hover with the mouse. Once inside a forum, the buttons will point to the right page without "_NS". It happens anytime I do that, I don't have to quit the browser or even close the page, just opening another window and following the procedure reproduces the problem.

But I think it's weirder than that. When I use a laptop that I have not yet upgraded (it's running MacOS X 10.6.3 and Safari 4.0.5) it behaves properly all the time. So the bug may be in one of the paths that selects from either the browser version or the OS version. Or if they are all the same path, then it's a software bug that needs to be submitted to Apple (bugreport.apple.com) to be fixed by them. I also tested in Firefox (v3.6.4, I haven't updated yet 'cuz I rarely use Firefox) on both computers and it works fine, so the bug is Safari related on my systems.

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[earthling177]

So now my question now is how are you getting to this page???  What steps are you taking to get there, does it only happen when you first start your browser after you closed it?  Is there a chance that you guys might have saved the non-logged in version of the page to your favorites bar????

Well, I get to that page in one of two ways: either I type www.automaticwasher.org on the address bar or I click the icon on the Safari Top Pages. From there I click one of buttons to go to a forum. They all say "_NS" on the status bar when I hover with the mouse. Once inside a forum, the buttons will point to the right page without "_NS". It happens anytime I do that, I don't have to quit the browser or even close the page, just opening another window and following the procedure reproduces the problem.

But I think it's weirder than that. When I use a laptop that I have not yet upgraded (it's running MacOS X 10.6.3 and Safari 4.0.5) it behaves properly all the time. So the bug may be in one of the paths that selects from either the browser version or the OS version. Or if they are all the same path, then it's a software bug that needs to be submitted to Apple (bugreport.apple.com) to be fixed by them. I also tested in Firefox (v3.6.4, I haven't updated yet 'cuz I rarely use Firefox) on both computers and it works fine, so the bug is Safari related on my systems.

 

[earthling177]

Another bug

Just deleted the post and reposted it. The first time it really screwed up the formatting (see attached screen capture). To fix it, I pasted the text on a Text Edit window, made it plain text, pasted it again here and applied italics and red to the quote. I don't know what happened, if some formatting inside the Advanced Editing box went rogue or what. But I figured I'd let you know anyway.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Too many bugs to deal with when I'm away from home, I have too many family obligations to spend much time at the computer this weekend.

Later on or tomorrow morning I'm going to attempt to reset all of the code back to the way it was.  This will just be temporary, when I'm home next week and things are more settled I can start from scratch and slowly put in the new look.  When the new look is done and not causing any issues what so ever I can then work on the editing bar.

In 10 years of running this site I have never had as many bug issues as in the last week, so clearly I need to start from scratch when I'm not 2000 miles from home.

 

[sudsmaster]

Sure, you're welcome Robert.

I *think* your latest bug fixes may have addressed a nagging problem I think I've mentioned before: when posting a reply, quite often the system will hang after hitting the preview message button. A refresh sometimes will unhang it, or a full stop and retry.

But I'm suspecting the problem now has gone away. I guess I need to post this reply and maybe a few hundred others to be 100% certain, however.



Hope all the family issues sort out. Hope you don't have to start from scratch, although delicacies prepared from scratch are all that more precious.



Whoops, spoke too soon. Right after that post I tried a reply in the green forum, and had to hit refresh as it was idling forever after the first try at a message preview.

Am I the only one to have had this sort of issue? It's been going on for about a year now...
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