Why am I always online?

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  1. wayne-scales

    wayne-scales Well-Known Member

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    TA seems to think that I'm constantly online when I'm not. As I'm about to sign in, I can see my username is already signed in.

    What's this about!?
     
  2. Wolfsbane

    Wolfsbane Well-Known Member

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    It's not that you're always online, it's that you auto-log. I do that as well. It's nice not having to bother about signing in every time you want to write/read something.
     
  3. wayne-scales

    wayne-scales Well-Known Member

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    No, it should be doing that, but when I come onto the page, I'm offline, but it says that one of the users that are online is me. And then when I log in, none of the new posts show up because TA assumes I've been on the whole time.

    Edit: Hmmm... The issue seems to have resovled itself... for now...
     
  4. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    It can happen if you were logged in but your connection got cut. When you reload the page you have been active within the last few minutes and have not actually logged out so you are still listed as active.
     
  5. wayne-scales

    wayne-scales Well-Known Member

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    But it happened twice and the last time I'd been active was the day before
     
  6. Arthgon

    Arthgon Well-Known Member

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    What if you delete the cookies from your computer?
     
  7. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    mayybe that cookies stuff would help yer really :)
     
  8. wayne-scales

    wayne-scales Well-Known Member

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    It's stopped randomly now that I've complained about it.
     
  9. papa_dog_1999

    papa_dog_1999 Well-Known Member

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    Of course! It's one of those unwritten natural laws. As soon as you bring something broken to the attention of those that can fix it, most of the time it stops being broken.
     
  10. wobbler

    wobbler Well-Known Member

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    fixed.
     
  11. wayne-scales

    wayne-scales Well-Known Member

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    The_Bob Administrator Staff Member

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    Nope, it's broken again.
     
  13. GrimmHatter

    GrimmHatter Active Member

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    Maybe it's not his computer that's the issue here.
     
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