Mods - can you check for failed login attempts

[OX mkII]

I'm having to login a lot on here lately yet I always check the remember login details box so I suspect somebody is taking the piss, can you check the logs for unsuccessful login attempts and please pass on the ip address'?

[RiK]

'Fraid not. As far as I'm aware no such logs exist.

FWIW, I get logged out a lot do, dunno why.

[Baggypants]

I'm having to login a lot on here lately yet I always check the remember login details box so I suspect somebody is taking the piss, can you check the logs for unsuccessful login attempts and please pass on the ip address'?

http://www.yakyak.org or yakyak.org or both? If it's without the www then it does log you out every single time. something something cookies. Probably

[Misfit]

Don't take any stock on the site remembering your login details. Some times it does. Some times it doesn't. There seems to be some correlation between using www but that isn't always true.

[merman]

You can also be logged out by software updates/patches on the site when they happen, see it a lot with phpBB forums.

[everklear]

Don't take any stock on the site remembering your login details. Some times it does. Some times it doesn't. There seems to be some correlation between using www but that isn't always true.

More than a correlation at yakyak for me.
No "www" means I'm not logged in automatically, whether I tick "remember me" or not.
If I accidentally go to the "yakyak.org" instead of "www.yakyak.org" simply adding the "www" and re-loading logs me in.
Cookies and browser interaction, I 'spose.

All this with Firefox FWIW.

[Harlequin]

It sounds like the same problem reported here.

[KlaxonCow]

It's perfectly consistent with me.

If it's "www.yakyak.org" then everything is fine and I'm always logged in. But if it's just "yakyak.org" then it'll ask me to login every time and "remember me" never seems to work.

What's inconsistent - and seemingly rather random - is that the email notifications seem to sometimes have "www.yakyak.org" and sometimes "yakyak.org" in the links they provide. Which one you get seems quite unrelated to anything I can put my finger on or work out.

You can have "www.yakyak.org" on a certain thread for weeks, then it'll provide a "yakyak.org" link for no apparent reason that I can see - and, when it does that, I'm always met with the login screen.

I've just got used to popping up to the address bar and adding in the missing "www" myself, then everything goes back to working normally again (no need to login, all links work properly, etc.).

At least at my end of things, the problem is just this strange behaviour of the "yakyak.org" links every once in a while.

If you're using email notifications to check threads, then take a look to see if it's got "www.yakyak.org" or "yakyak.org" - the former works, the latter doesn't - but I have no idea why it seemingly randomly chooses to use "yakyak.org" sometimes. It just does.

There is no rhyme nor reason that I can work out for why this happens. No obvious patterns to it. You know, I could be following the pictures thread for months and every time it gives me a "www.yakyak.org" link every time then, suddenly, it's a "yakyak.org" link. Then it's back to "www.yakyak.org" for the next week or so. It just weirdly pops up from time to time and I can't see any pattern to it that could potentially explain why.

[Harlequin]

I think I have encountered the problem with 'www.yakyak.org' links as well on occasion. I will try to remember to make a note here if that happens again.

[Harlequin]

I was right. I just got a notification stating

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If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click the
following link:
http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83409&p=1614694&e=1614694

I did so and was taken to the login page at http://www.yakyak.org.

[KlaxonCow]

Interesting. Then we might actually be suffering from two sets of different problems at the same time.

I know for 99% certain that the "www.yakyak.org" and "yakyak.org" thing is the only problem that I've been suffering at my end, because, as I say, every time I see that login page now, I go up to the address bar and type the "www" in manually. And I can't recall a single occasion, since I've been doing that, where this wasn't the problem for me and adding the "www" make it work.

(I've also copied and pasted the link you've provided there and it works just fine for me.)

So, if you're 99% sure that you've also had the problem with "www" present, then that's definitely a different behaviour to what I've been experiencing, so we could be looking at two different problems at the same time here.

[Misfit]

I was right. I just got a notification stating

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If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click the
following link:
http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83409&p=1614694&e=1614694

I did so and was taken to the login page at http://www.yakyak.org.

Yes, just had one for a private message that took me to the login page.

Although I now wonder as I type, when I was taken to the login page earlier today, did I forget to tick the remember me box and thus it forgot me?

[Harlequin]

Yes, just had one for a private message that took me to the login page.

Although I now wonder as I type, when I was taken to the login page earlier today, did I forget to tick the remember me box and thus it forgot me?

Or your browser may have mislaid the cookie setting (if that is where the option is stored). I have only just got around to testing with coming here directly after that has happened instead of instinctively logging back in immediately, and I do seem to be logged out generally rather than it being the link's fault (in the case of the 'www.' being present).

[Misfit]

Or your browser may have mislaid the cookie setting (if that is where the option is stored). I have only just got around to testing with coming here directly after that has happened instead of instinctively logging back in immediately, and I do seem to be logged out generally rather than it being the link's fault (in the case of the 'www.' being present).

Could be the setting, but visit far too often for it to forget as much as it does!

[Harlequin]

Could be the setting, but visit far too often for it to forget as much as it does!

I thought the same, which is probably why I did not previously bother to check. I did not seem to have the problem before a year or two ago and I have not noticed a similar reduced timeout on other sites.