keep losing my cookies/site history?..

The Northern Monkey
The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
edited July 2010 in Discuss the website with the team
I keep losing my cookies for BR... it never happens on any other forum (using the same phpBB forum privider).

So everytime I close the site and come back, I lose all the posts in "view most recent posts" and it resets to zero.

No idea why, cookies are turned on for every site and like I said its not happening for any other forum...

Any ideas?

Using Safari on OSX if it makes any difference?
Santa Cruz Butcher

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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Not just me then?

    Thort it was my kids deleting everything after looking at Porn!

    "Kids" are 19 and 23 BTW, so no Social Services unplanned visits, please.
  • angry_bird
    angry_bird Posts: 3,787
    I'm having the exact same problem, using safari too on OSX, been happening for a while but never really been bothered too much before
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    hmm so its not just me?

    Its just annoying when i see a thread I want to read, close the browser and then return only to find my unread threads thing has reset and I can't remember where it was!!
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    Arrghh its done it again :evil:
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,715
    The Northern Monkey wrote:
    hmm so its not just me?

    Its just annoying when i see a thread I want to read, close the browser and then return only to find my unread threads thing has reset and I can't remember where it was!!
    Surely that's what it's supposed to do? When you close the browser, you end the session, and it should count as a log out. When you reopen the browser, it's a new session, a new visit, so obviously the list of unread topics since your last visit will have changed.

    Am I missing something?
  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    yup missing a lot :lol:

    I stay signed in on bikeradar... so it should remember where I left off!

    No other forum is like that as I said so i'm not sure whats going on with BR!

    Tis well annoying!

    Oh and it never used to do it... say 4 months ago?
    Nothings changed on my laptop and all other sites are ok!
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,715
    But you don't stay signed in, you close the browser...

    The cookie refreshes on the end of the session. This is either the browser being closed, or you actually logging out. Some browsers will keep the session alive if you open the browser again quickly, some won't, it depends on the browser. As the two people who have suggested it's happening and have identified the browser/OS are both using Safari, I would suggest that it's probably because Safari's cookie handling has changed in some way recently.
  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    but... I use another forum with phpBB and have no problems... same setup... along with a few other forums where this never happens either.

    And I do stay signed in. Close the browser but I never have to put me password etc in.

    Just annoying... its only BR that does this!
    Santa Cruz Butcher

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