Access difficulty.

When I try to access the thread "What happened?" I get a screen asking me to log in again, even though I have already logged in. On the left-hand end of the Status Bar there is a comment "closed".  Trying to log in with this new request is not effective; nothing happens.

David.

Mmm, dunno! Working fine for me!

I had the same problem with the same symptoms yesterday morning. However, it seems to be working properly again today.

It happened to me too David, however it seems to work OK now.

Another thing with the same thread the posts seem to have got somewhat jumbled with answers preceding questions in some cases by quite a distance,

Robin

Hopefully fixed? There are options under "display" to show conversation view (the normal view with new posts at the bottom of each discussion) or threaded conversation view, where direct replies to a post appear immediately under it and indented. For some reason the What Happened discussion was using the latter layout.

Mmm, nothing fixed I'm afraid, the AR site is now running on a dedicated server and hasn't been touched technically for a couple of weeks. 

However (!) , the way these websites work, when you log in, the browser stored a cookie locally so "it" remembers it's logged into the site. At the same time, the server stores a "session" variable so it remembers the browser is logged in, and the browser and server are in agreement.

What you are describing sounds a little like the server and browser being out of sync , i.e. the browser thinking you are logged in and the server not recognising you as logged in. This can happen if you stay logged in for a while, some browsers don't handle cookie timeouts properly, so when the server expires your session (and forgets you are logged in) the browser may not.

Those of you who've had a problem, can you tell me how long your browser was likely to have been running when you had the problem? (and which browser you were running?)

Next time anyone gets this, can you close down all instances of your browser, then fire it up again and immediately try to access what you were failing to access? (if I'm right it will work straight away for you ...)

Mmm, I may have turned on the threaded view by default so I could see where some of the replies were going .. there are always alternative Forums out there ...

Kath's just finishing off a new website and we've put a much newer and more extensive Forum system on it, no posts on there yet but it looks quite promising;

http://jeremynortham.net/forum/

Could do with some testers if you want to register and give it a try ..

Gareth.

Previously Geraint Lewis wrote:

Robin

 

Hopefully fixed? There are options under "display" to show conversation view (the normal view with new posts at the bottom of each discussion) or threaded conversation view, where direct replies to a post appear immediately under it and indented. For some reason the What Happened discussion was using the latter layout.

 

G'day Gareth, I'm using Firefox 3.5.7 as my browser.  The TARS website is near the top of my 'bookmarks', so Firefox would not have been running for more than a few minutes.  The last time that I   tried, it was working just fine.

David.

Previously Gareth Bult wrote:

Mmm, nothing fixed I'm afraid, the AR site is now running on a dedicated server and hasn't been touched technically for a couple of weeks. 

However (!) , the way these websites work, when you log in, the browser stored a cookie locally so "it" remembers it's logged into the site. At the same time, the server stores a "session" variable so it remembers the browser is logged in, and the browser and server are in agreement.

What you are describing sounds a little like the server and browser being out of sync , i.e. the browser thinking you are logged in and the server not recognising you as logged in. This can happen if you stay logged in for a while, some browsers don't handle cookie timeouts properly, so when the server expires your session (and forgets you are logged in) the browser may not.

Those of you who've had a problem, can you tell me how long your browser was likely to have been running when you had the problem? (and which browser you were running?)

Next time anyone gets this, can you close down all instances of your browser, then fire it up again and immediately try to access what you were failing to access? (if I'm right it will work straight away for you ...)

Ok, are you distinguishing between Firefox running and having AR on the screen?  I'm referring to Firefox "running",  if you visit the site, then navigate to another site, the browser will still remember you as logged in .. until you actually quit all instances of the browser, or specifically log out, or restart your machine ... ??

Gave the Jeremy Northam site a try pretty cool

Robin

Thanks very much for visiting the new site and its forum, Robin, and for your positive feedback. I thought I'd drop over here and return the compliment. Hope everything is good in TARS-land and I'll try and pop over and post here from time to time.

Kath

Previously Robin Marshall wrote:

Gave the Jeremy Northam site a try pretty cool

Robin