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It seems I only stay logged in for a few hours and then I get logged out. I check the "remember me" box on the login page and I changed nothing in Firefox so I'm unsure what the issue is.

Did something change on Neowin's end?

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I have had this issue with both firefox and with chrome on my pc at work however I do not have any issues while I am at home.

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There have been a few others with this issue, I'm curious if anyone has had these issues in "non" firefox browsers.

IE, FF, and Chrome.

Another related issue...I can be reading posts, click to go to the next page of comments and get logged out on the spot, sign back in and go to the next page and get logged out again.

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IE, FF, and Chrome.

Another related issue...I can be reading posts, click to go to the next page of comments and get logged out on the spot, sign back in and go to the next page and get logged out again.

I reported the same issues as yours and the OP's 2-3 weeks ago. One time it so happened that I typed my whole comment in the news article and then when I clicked Add Comment, it gave me an error saying that I am not authorized to post comments. I refreshed the page and I saw that I was logged out.

This has been happening since the Atlas upgrade. I am guessing the way the user sessions are handled has changed for the worse since the upgrade.

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It's happening to me constantly today. Every dozen or so page views I get kicked out.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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The main news pages seems to be borked now. If I go to it, it's mostly blank, plus it shows me as logged out, but when I click the Forum link, I'm not logged out.

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Still happening for me (Opera) but, when I visit a news article I get a cookie "viewXXXXX" which has a timestamp as it's value - presumably when I read the page. Browsers only allow a certain amount of cookies per domain - Opera is 30, FF/IE are 50. When that limit is reached, the browser deletes a cookie everytime the site adds another one, at some point I guess it deletes the cookie holding the login info and so logs you out :/

edit: Just tried it out, visited enough news pages to get up to 30 cookies, visited a few more and was logged out and the pass hash cookie had vanished.

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