Web Features

Problem with staying signed in

Anybody else experienced problems with staying signed in on Blurb?
I already send a ticket to Blurb, but I was wondering if I’m alone in this.

I’ve crossed the ‘remember me’ when I signed in the first time and saved the link to my favorites.|
When I enter Blurb through that link, it says Welcome Titia/Sign out, so that means that I’m signed in. But not so, because when I reply to a forum question and hit the ‘post’ button, I get a pop up saying I have to sign in and all my text is lost. This happened tonight two times in a row, so I’m not very amused with that.

Wondered if anybody else experienced something like that.

 

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Posted by
Titia
Feb 8, 2010 7:10pm PDT
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Titia
 

Well Hurray, this time I got through.

Posted by
Titia
Feb 8, 2010 7:10pm PDT
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Titia
 

Every long response I’ve done.  I’ve taken to copying  my reply to the clipboard, then, when I have to go through all the re-login garbage, I just paste it back in.  I’ve complained about it here

http://forums.blurb.com/forums/3/topics/7681

But there was no response from anybody.

Mike

Posted by
Charybdis
Feb 8, 2010 11:02pm PDT
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Charybdis
 

Well, glad I’m not alone in this, but very annoying that Blurb won’t do anything about it. I got a very non helpful general answer to my question. What’s the point of having Forums if one can’t hop from one to the other in order to help people, without having to log in all the time.

I gather you copy your text with Ctrl+C? because there’s no ‘copy’ in the right click menu.

What’s very annoying too is that we can’t go back to the overview of the forums when having answered to a question, but have to use the back button or go all the way through the Help/forums again. Not users friendly at all.

That’s a BIG, BIG minus for Blurb, along with the BIG minus for not paying us our proceeds through Paypal.

Posted by
Titia
Feb 9, 2010 5:09am PDT
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Titia
 

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I had no idea people were experiencing log out problems at this point. I will look into that. Really sorry for the hassle

Also, did you now that you can jump back to the overview page without having to click back. Just click on Forums Home from the sidebar that runs down the right side of the page.

– Kathy

Posted by
kathybad
Feb 9, 2010 10:37am PDT
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kathybad
 

Ok Kathy, thank you for your comment here. I returned the email I got from Blurb, explaining the above and got an email back from Geary, suggesting to clear out my internet cache (well I didn’t delete all the cookies, just those from Blurb), put blurb.com in the address bar, sign in and go to the forums to see if it helped.
So this is what I’m doing now. I’ll copy this message though for if it goes wrong again.

We’ll see what happens when I click the post button.

Posted by
Titia
Feb 9, 2010 5:57pm PDT
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Titia
 

Well, it worked this time. Now I’m going over to another forum and see how long I will stay logged in.

Posted by
Titia
Feb 9, 2010 5:58pm PDT
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Titia
 

Ok, I’ve been logged in now for about 23 minutes, replied to several items in the forums and didn’t get thrown out, so it must have worked with deleting the cookies.

Now I’m curious, when I save the site in my favorites, if it stays this way next time I enter Blurb.
We’ll see.

Posted by
Titia
Feb 9, 2010 6:23pm PDT
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Titia
 

Kathy,

Any status on this, it is still happening.

Mike

Posted by
Charybdis
Feb 21, 2010 11:24pm PDT
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Charybdis
 

My web team is saying that this problem is a bit difficult to recreate on our end. There could be a number of factors as to why this is happening including the particular browser you’re using, a corrupted cookies, etc.

Titia above has had success with our current workaround which is to clear your cache and cookies.

Thanks for your patience with this.

– Kathy

Posted by
kathybad
Feb 22, 2010 5:51pm PDT
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