It's about time someone recoded this forum. For a few months now, as noted by other members, the forum decides you need to log in whilst trying to post/reply/answer posts.

This morning this happened 4 times while trying to type a reply within the posting pane , and just now I logged in, tried to open a forum section and again I am presented with a login in field.

I've even had this when having typed a sentence and trying to add a "smiley" I am no longer logged in and the same stupid cycle starts again.

Different browsers, different devices the result is the same.

phpBB is a useless unreliable forum software, please choose something more competent.

I've not had this problem :?:

Piste Basher wrote:
I've not had this problem :?:

hornbyp wrote:
I typed this reply in about 5 times now, and the flamin' forum software keeps inviting me to login, every time I hit "Preview" and then loses all the text ... it's ended up rather terse

I'll try hitting "preview" now...

no problem with that...

Don't tempt fate, it's been going on for @ 3 months now and this is the 3rd attempt at posting this reply.

Type the message, try to preview and the message is gone. Frequently it's log in > read a new post , try to reply and get presented with the login field.

AdrianH54 wrote:
Don't tempt fate, it's been going on for @ 3 months now and this is the 3rd attempt at posting this reply.

I find it only occurs sporadically - but with annoying frequency during these periods (if you see what I mean )

I've got into the habit of typing Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C before I hit "Preview", so that I don't lose every thing.

Given that no-one else seems to be having problem, maybe it's something in our particular environments.

I'm using the new Chromium-based Edge, with a 'Chrome' extension called Ghostery (it's a pop-up, tracking-cookie, ad-blocker thing). It sometimes causes issues with other sites, but when it does, they're repeatable.

I also use Steven Black's curated 'HOSTS' file collection and have a firewall rule that blocks outbound access to all the countries that I think I have no requirement to access. Both of these cause unexpected issues on occasion - but always repeatably, so I don't think they're implicated.

Sod's Law says it's behaved absolutely perfectly, during the typing of this reply