Thread: Log-In Issues

I may try again this weekend to upgrade our forum software. Last time it failed and I had to restore back - kind of a pain.

But I think I may be getting closer to solving. Finger's crossed.

Thanks Tom for all the behind the scenes work you do.

Originally Posted by nasa1974

Thanks Tom for all the behind the scenes work you do.

Ditto Tom!

I didn't get the forum software upgraded yet. Been working on other options. The upgrade failed last time and the forum was down a while so I am trying other things first, but I may have to bite the bullet and try the upgrade again. But because of the down-time, it will have to be a weekend project. Sorry for the delay.

Originally Posted by tsptalk

I may try again this weekend to upgrade our forum software. Last time it failed and I had to restore back - kind of a pain.

But I think I may be getting closer to solving. Finger's crossed.

The upgrade has been completed. Hope it helps.

Hasn't helped at all, I am afraid to report. A little worse actually. Do you really want to know?

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Originally Posted by amoeba

Hasn't helped at all, I am afraid to report. A little worse actually. Do you really want to know?

Rats!

I suppose you can email me the issues and we can look at them, but at this point I'm 99% sure it's your IP, browser / PC settings, or something on that side. We're using the latest version 4 of VB that we'll probably use. Version 5 is totally different and will wipe out many of the features we use so I don't plan to go there anytime soon.

I never, ever, not once, had an issue with getting logged out or logging, but I'm not sure what I'm doing differently than you, and don;t kow what we can do differently.

But thanks for the feedback and sorry for the inconvenience.

I'm 100% sure its not on my side, since I've tried on numerous computers with different servers and wifi connections, and there are other posts by other people on this thread experiencing the same thing....and....the issues are unique to this forum and occur in no other forum I use now, or in the past. Just here. Just this forum. Total FUBAR....it takes a minimum of 3 logon attempts to get a reply screen to post something on a computer, and when I send, I either have to login another 2 times, or worse, I get some kind of firewall thing that goes one of two places if I refresh.....it will either post my reply and put me back to the forum, or it won't do jack....and everything I wrote is gone. Now that's the part that works...here's the bad stuff. Android...anywhere...anytime....Tapatalk has been rendered 99% useless by this upgrade. Nothing will display...not members acct talk, not the premium forum, not anything...with one tiny exception....you got it. "Report problems" under miscellaneous works every time. Now, I have been able to wade thru Vbulletin on a fone, but it is clunky bcz it still, doesn't show all graphs. I've done the cookies, all those past tips dozens of times and they do nothing for me. And, as I've said, it isn't just me, or just a few of us...it's most of us. The frustrating part is this site used to work, and did so, for years, and now...to provide a bad metaphor, it seems a trade deal with China is more likely to occur than debugging this forum. 3 parting words: "it needs work."

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There has to be a common thread with the members that are having log-in issues. It appears to just be a few unless more folks are not reporting problems and just plod along. Just my experience, I have had no log-in issues. Occasionally I get the server error or can't quote someone but it is very sporadic and happens on both the home computer and work.
Just a thought, what if amoeba registers as a new user and we see what happens.

I think it helps to DETRASH your Computer/Cellphone and Browsers. Defrag, D-louse ETC, I know it helps mine. Clearing Browsing data in Chrome helps me!

One thing that could be an issue is if you use a different password for the forum, Autotracker, premium area. Unfortunately the site was piecemeal-ed together and not all of these areas talk to each other and your cookies and saved passwords may be different for each. Making all three area's passwords the same "may" help, but I'm grasping at straws at this point.