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astrohip · 09-07-2021, 07:41 AM

Help! Long time user, never have any issues. Starting about 4-5 days ago, every time I visit the forum (which is 3-5 times a day), I have to login. Every. Time.

I'm using the same browser, on the same laptop, from the same location. No VPN, just a regular Internet connection. I check about 20-25 forum a day, and this is the only one that suddenly started doing this (so it's not Chrome). I have checked "remember me".

Any ideas? Thanks, this is getting very frustrating.

astrohip · 09-07-2021, 07:42 AM

BTW, I still get my daily notifications (lots of them). I still can see subscribed threads, etc.

In other words, the forum functions like it always does, once I'm logged in. It just won't remember me.

reed303 · 09-07-2021, 04:05 PM

Did you lose the S in your login ? Should be https, not http.

astrohip · 09-07-2021, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by reed303

Did you lose the S in your login ? Should be https, not http.

Bingo! That was it. Changed the bookmarks, and all works.

Is this a recent change? My bookmarks go back years, and have worked up until last week.

I can't thank you enough, much appreciated.

mensaguy · 09-08-2021, 07:25 AM

This was thoroughly covered in a few threads back in December 2019. Here's one of them: https://www.city-data.com/forum/abou...very-time.html

astrohip · 09-08-2021, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by mensaguy

This was thoroughly covered in a few threads back in December 2019. Here's one of them: https://www.city-data.com/forum/abou...very-time.html

Thanks for the update. I'm wondering why it just now started becoming a problem for me? I log in every day, and haven't changed a C-D bookmark in ages. So why now?

Nonetheless, it works, and I appreciate the help!

1973PINTO · 09-08-2021, 08:43 AM

when you say you log in every day do you mean you log off every time to leave the site and have to enter user name and password when you come back .i have never logged out when i turn off my system and probably do not even know my password ..

elnina · 09-08-2021, 08:52 AM

Perhaps you just need to clear cookies and browsing data, then restart your computer/phone. The first time - you will need to log in, but you should stay logged in till you clear data again.

astrohip · 09-08-2021, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by 1973PINTO

when you say you log in every day do you mean you log off every time to leave the site and have to enter user name and password when you come back .i have never logged out when i turn off my system and probably do not even know my password ..

No, I never log off. I wasn't clear... what I meant was I check in several times a day, but never log off between visits. And until now, I probably hadn't needed to login in several months.

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Originally Posted by elnina

Perhaps you just need to clear cookies and browsing data, then restart your computer/phone. The first time - you will need to log in, but you should stay logged in till you clear data again.

Thanks, but this is already solved. It was the https vs http problem, noted in the third post.

I was just wondering WHY this happened, after all this time. But it's a curiosity question, that's all.