Captain Untouchable
Feb 3rd, 2014, 10:11:15 PM
I've had a number of problems, over the last week in particular, with posts being sent out from the wrong account.
I'd assumed that it was just me being a noob, so I have started being extra careful. A moment ago, having written my post, I returned to the Star Wars Roleplaying section, confirmed that I was most definitely logged in on the account I was expecting to post with, re-opened the thread, pasted my post into the quick account box, and hit submit. As soon as the next page loaded, I was logged in as a completely different character; the post had submitted on this different account, rather than the one I had confirmed I was logged in as a matter of seconds beforehand.
Having gone back through my browser history, I was definitely using "theholo.net" at all times throughout the process, so it's not an issue of me being logged in differently on different instances of the site and it flip-flopping between somehow. It's pretty baffling really, as I took every countermeasure I can possibly think of taking to prevent accidentally mis-posting.
The only similar thing I can think of is when you register a new account. If I was logged in as "Inyos Aamoran", and registered a new "Chir'daki" account, clicking on the activation link in the email would direct me to Fans, logged in as Chir'daki. However, after a particular amount of time, it seems to "ping back" to the earlier account (Inyos Aamoran). It doesn't seem to make a difference if you change settings / upload avatars / link accounts / befriend people in the meanwhile... eventually, it's gonna elastic back to the earlier account.
It's a minor annoyance at most, but given how (unless you have Supporter status on every account you own) only Mods/Admins can delete posts, and how there seem to have been more accidental wrong account posts lately... maybe it's a thing? Some funkiness with the "Welcome, (insert name)" text not updating properly or something?
I dunno. :huh
Edit:
Bonus thought - I've had a few issues lately where, if I've spent too long writing a post or a PM, the boards have thrown up an error about my token having expired, and told me to go back and refresh the page I was on before trying again (this is why I went back and reloaded the thread I was posting to - I've had posts munched by the boards because of this a few times now). I'm not entirely sure why that might be causing shenanigans, but maybe that's related somehow?
I'd assumed that it was just me being a noob, so I have started being extra careful. A moment ago, having written my post, I returned to the Star Wars Roleplaying section, confirmed that I was most definitely logged in on the account I was expecting to post with, re-opened the thread, pasted my post into the quick account box, and hit submit. As soon as the next page loaded, I was logged in as a completely different character; the post had submitted on this different account, rather than the one I had confirmed I was logged in as a matter of seconds beforehand.
Having gone back through my browser history, I was definitely using "theholo.net" at all times throughout the process, so it's not an issue of me being logged in differently on different instances of the site and it flip-flopping between somehow. It's pretty baffling really, as I took every countermeasure I can possibly think of taking to prevent accidentally mis-posting.
The only similar thing I can think of is when you register a new account. If I was logged in as "Inyos Aamoran", and registered a new "Chir'daki" account, clicking on the activation link in the email would direct me to Fans, logged in as Chir'daki. However, after a particular amount of time, it seems to "ping back" to the earlier account (Inyos Aamoran). It doesn't seem to make a difference if you change settings / upload avatars / link accounts / befriend people in the meanwhile... eventually, it's gonna elastic back to the earlier account.
It's a minor annoyance at most, but given how (unless you have Supporter status on every account you own) only Mods/Admins can delete posts, and how there seem to have been more accidental wrong account posts lately... maybe it's a thing? Some funkiness with the "Welcome, (insert name)" text not updating properly or something?
I dunno. :huh
Edit:
Bonus thought - I've had a few issues lately where, if I've spent too long writing a post or a PM, the boards have thrown up an error about my token having expired, and told me to go back and refresh the page I was on before trying again (this is why I went back and reloaded the thread I was posting to - I've had posts munched by the boards because of this a few times now). I'm not entirely sure why that might be causing shenanigans, but maybe that's related somehow?