yesterday for the first time I experienced a new behaviour as far as login/logout in itsfoss is concerned.
Login still was as per usual:
I obtained the link for login to itsfoss.com via e-mail: “Welcome back! Use this link to securely sign in to your It’s FOSS account:
[…]”
so I was logged in to itsfoss.
Here I clicked on “Community” and was diverted to the forum page
Here I clicked on “login” and that was it.
But yesterday I could only log out from the community page but not from itsfoss.com.
Well, today I only had to fire up the community page, click on “login” and I immediately was logged in.
This behaviour is completely different to what it used to be.
What about the itsfoss.com page?
Am I constantly logged in now
I couldn´t find a logout button.
Is this the normal way of logging in to the forum from now on
I´m pretty confused.
Hi Rosika,
Yes, that is what happens to me, if I have previously logged in from a linux distro, because I session save the browser, and it has the itsfoss tab bookmarked.
but
If it is a new linux distro, that i have never logged into itsfoss before from, I get the full mail confirmation procedure, as you experienced.
So questions,
Which distro were you using? … was it the one you always use?
and
Was the browser a new instance ? … or was it session saved?
and
Did the browser have a bookmarked itsfoss tab?
I had some feeling that something had changed too, but was not sure.
Hmm, I´m not quite sure what that means.
I myself have the “itsfoss.community” tab bookmarked. Clicking on login used to divert me to the itsfoss.com page first.
I always use my main system Linux Lite for that.
I´d like to answer your question if I knew what session-saved means.
No, but “itsfoss.community” is bookmarked.
Well, be it as it may. Something definitively has changed.
I never could log out from itsfoss.com again and there doesn´t seem to be a logout option available any longer… .
I always use the Xfce session save option.
When I logout and power off it saves what is on the workplace screens.
When I login again later, it restores what was on the workplace screens
So if I had a browser going when I powered off, the briwser reappears when I power on again.
It sounds like you dont use session save.
It is useful to me .
It is an Xfce feature… I dont think other DE’s have it.
I mention it, because it means my browser is usually not a new instance.
I am just trying to narrow down the number of possible cases.
You dont have a new distro, only a new instance of the browser when you login.
So why was the second login different from the first ?
I just looked at my logout/powerdown-screen. I could check the box
“Sitzung für zukünftige Anmeldungen speichern”. = Save session for future logins.
I had never paid attention to this one before, I have to admit.
Yes, that´s right then.
I power down my system the normal way after having shut down firefox and after having logged out of the forum and of the general itsfoss page.
Did you see ypthe bit I added to the end of last reply
It doesnt make sense. Your first login was no different from your login on the next day. In both cases you had to restart the browser.
Question
Did you have an itsfoss tab bookmarked in the browser on both days?
Yes, I had to restart the browser.
But as of today I´m no longer diverted to the itsfoss.com page. That used to be the starting point for the login procedure.
Am I still logged in to itsfoss.com
Or was I automatically logged out by the change of the procedure?
I guess @abhishek would be the one who could shed some light on the matter.
Sometimes I login just the one time on the first site and am logged in at all the others automatically. Sometimes I can just refresh the page on the others if I am not logged in and then I am logged in. Sometimes I need to login again using email at one of the other sites.
I use MS Edge as my default browser and sometimes Firefox. I figure browser caching affects login, just not sure why it seems to change.
Did not know that existed, never found or used it.
Only when I change computers or browsers do I get the email no matter which part of the site I visit. On my bar I simply type ”I” and it takes me direct to the site, yes its book marked but i dont have any other site i visit begin with the letter ”I”
I very seldom log in to It’ Foss. I use Firefox, but never log out of the session. So the next time I click on the bookmark, I am at Itsfoss.community.
Well, nothing has changed in that respect either.
At the end of my session I used to log out of both sites and then shut down the PC overnight.
The next day I´d log in the ususal way.
From logout to login again it´s about 18 hrs.
Apart from that the lentgth of time I was logged out never mattered anyhow.
Even when I logged in again after omitting a whole day the login procedure never changed.
It turned out I was still logged in at itsfoss.com as I never could log out from it any more.
As a result logging in to the forum site was easy as I just had to login from there.
Well, there seems to have been a change in the logout procedure from the main page:
On itsfoss.com there´s no longer a logout button. But: on the membership page (on It's FOSS) there is such a “button”: It´s called “Sign out” and it´s hidden beneath the personal user´s icon.
Now I can log out from the main page again.
So the signing in/out procedure is doable the way it used to be again, with a minor modification as far as logout from the main page is concerned.
Instead of itsfoss.com
it´s https://itsfoss.com/membership/
now.
Funny thing though that we hadn´t been informed about that change.
Never mind. Everything´s clear now, I guess.
I’ve seen some unusual reactions from the site lately. When I first open the page, I am seeing a version from a week or two ago. Then I click ctrl-refresh, and I see the new one. But if I just immediately refresh again, I see the old one. I could clear my history and cookies but that’s a pain.
In the Samsung Internet browser on my tablet, I often get my home page tab having multiple home page copies, and it only seems to updatd the original one properly.
I havd to keep backing up to get rid of them … I thought it was a browser problem.
Maybe its a browser ↔ itsfoss interaction?
It does not happen on my PC in firefox.
