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by **Catch-up** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:24 pm

I hope I'm putting this in the right place. There's a thread about technical problems on this forum over on the CA forum, and it just seemed to make more sense to start one here.

My technical problems: It sometimes takes me several tries to sign in. When I do get signed in I often don't get the flags to let you know there have been new posts added to threads. And, often, the pages are very slow to load.

My question: Will there be a place here to trade/sell DW stuff?

Thanks!

by **Tonyblack** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:31 pm

Great idea Susanne and something I was considering starting myself.

by **Catch-up** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:37 pm

Hopefully someone can figure it out. It gets really frustrating having to sign in three times.

And it's not that I'm getting one of the fields wrong. I don't get the screen that says I got it wrong, I get the index as if I'd signed in successfully.

by **Jason** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:21 am

Susanne, have you tried deleting your cookies, your browsing history and your cache to see if that sorts out the problem?

What browser are you using?

by **Catch-up** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:30 pm

Nope, I hadn't thought of that, probably because it was only happening here. But I'll give it a try! I use Internet Explorer.

by **Tonyblack** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:52 pm

Toss your cookies Susanne. :wink:

I use BT Yahoo browser and it automatically signs me in when I open the page. Not had any problems like that at all.

by **Catch-up** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:24 pm

I'll let you know if it works. I never opt for the "sign me in automatically" option because that means I'll eventually forget my password. :oops:

by **Bickaxe** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:44 pm

I got round having to sign in several times by signing in (3 times or more) and then 'Bookmarking' the page: http://88.208.209.103/minisites/terrypratchett/forum/index.php rather than http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/forum/

All I have to do is open the page, sign in and all the flags and stuff is up to date. I use Firefox 3 though as opposed to that Microsoft crap :wink:

by **Tonyblack** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:27 pm

Bickaxe wrote:I got round having to sign in several times by signing in (3 times or more) and then 'Bookmarking' the page: http://88.208.209.103/minisites/terrypratchett/forum/index.php rather than http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/forum/

All I have to do is open the page, sign in and all the flags and stuff is up to date. I use Firefox 3 though as opposed to that Microsoft crap

That's what I did. :wink:

by **Catch-up** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:57 pm

Deleted cookies, etc. That seems to have fixed the sign in problem. Tried your link Mark, but I'm still not getting the new posts flags.

by **SandraB** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:05 pm

They're now working for me (for the first time)

by **Catch-up** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:23 pm

Apparently deleting the cookies only worked the first time around. I'm back to having to sign in multiple times, and still no new post flags.

It's a good thing I'm relentless. :twisted:

by **Bickaxe** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:27 pm

The first sign in with the updated link doesn't work, but they did there after.

You cold always try using Firefox :wink:

by **Catch-up** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:34 pm

I know, I know. Derek's been trying to sell me on Firefox for awhile now. I haven't been motivated to change, but then again, I haven't really run into any problems. So, maybe this will do it. :wink:

by **SandraB** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:54 pm

SandraB wrote:They're now working for me (for the first time)

And they're gone again - though I'm logging in Ok I have to log in again to post (though thankfully only once per visit rather than every post)

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