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« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2016, 09:43PM »

Tonight, when replying on the hug thread, I kept getting a message that my session had expired whole posting the message.

This time, cache/cookie flushing and re-launching the browser didn't do the trick. I tried reposting a bunch of times (15 times, perhaps) and eventually the post went through.
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« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2016, 10:07PM »

Tonight, when replying on the hug thread, I kept getting a message that my session had expired whole posting the message.

This time, cache/cookie flushing and re-launching the browser didn't do the trick. I tried reposting a bunch of times (15 times, perhaps) and eventually the post went through.
Yep...  For  me,  hitting  the  Preview  button  helped clear  it.
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« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2016, 05:40PM »

This being a session-related issue, I disabled the setting to always keep me logged in.

No problems since then. Wink
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« Reply #18 on: November 19, 2016, 10:43PM »

It seems a new difficulty is cropping up.

I have my login timeout set to 60 minutes, but it seems my sessions are sometimes expiring before that.

When I try to post, I get an error that I'm not authorized to post or that I should refresh the page and re-post.

If I try to post again, I sometimes get prompted to log in.

Then, once I log in, I get an error that I've already submitted the post and that I might have resubmitted in error.

If I copy my unsaved text, navigate to a different topic, then back to the one I was trying to post in, I can see that it hasn't actually submitted the post. So I past my text and submit it again. The post usually goes through successfully at that point.
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« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2016, 10:21AM »

I sometimes get the following error too, even when I wasn't in the process of composing a post at the time my session timed out:

Your session timed out while posting. Please try to re-submit your message.
No subject was filled in.
The message body was left empty.


This stuff all started around the same time as the database errors. There's definitely something different than before.
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« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2016, 08:12PM »

me too   several times.......
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« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2016, 10:49PM »

For people still getting session errors, here's a summary of the steps that worked for me:

(1) Clear the browser cache and cookies in any browser you use to access the form (most importantly, clear the browser cache in the one you're going to log out from).
(2) Close and re-open that browser.
(3) Go back to the forum.
(4) Log out.
(5) Press the login button on the menu bar (next to the Register button, not the spot where you actually put the username and password in),
(6) Uncheck the box that says "Always stay logged in"
(7) Now log in.

That fixed most of the errors for me.

NOTE: You'll likely have to log back in to any other sites you were logged in to before clearing your browser cookies. It will make your browser forget about what it was logged in to before as well as potentially some other preferences for sites that use cookies to store that information about you.

If you only flush the browser cache / cookies, it will fix the problem only temporarily. It will come back shortly. You also have to uncheck "Always stay logged in."

It's almost like the forum is expiring sessions in a different way than before but the browser doesn't know it, so if you leave it logged in all the time, your session expires and gives you errors, even logging out (you can't log out of a session if the session you were logged in with isn't valid anymore Wink )

Even after the workaround above, there are still some weird errors happening to me. For example, if I leave my browser open and logged in to the forum, whether I'm in the process of composing / editing a post or not, it sometimes starts a chain of errors. The good news is that those errors will clear up if you just refresh the page (hopefully you weren't in the process of posting anything at the time).

Hopefully this helps, everyone.
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« Reply #22 on: December 06, 2016, 09:58PM »

I haven't had any more weird errors in a while.

How's everyone else doing?
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