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#1 2007-11-10 13:46:42
Survey: please help us
Some people are reporting that they are still having to log in very often. The session should last 15 days, I think this could be a problem specific to some browsers. Please respond these 3 questions to help us figure out this mystery:
1. What operating system do you use?
Example: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux.
2. What browser do you use?
Example: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7,Internet Explorer 6, Safari, Camino, Opera.
3. How often do you have to login to the website? This is how often do you have to put your username and password? Examples: "I get disconnected every five minutes! it's so annoying" or "I don't have to log in for days."
Thanks a lot for your help.
Andres Monroy-Hernandez
Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab
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#2 2007-11-10 15:14:51
Re: Survey: please help us
1.Windows xp
2.Firefox2
3.Never since about 3 weeks, but when I log out then I go back on to it, it's atoumatically
logged on.
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#3 2007-11-10 17:08:33
- relyt12101
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Re: Survey: please help us
1. Windows XP (to get specific, I use Media Center Edition)
2. Firefox 2(.0.0.9)
3. I rarely log on. Most of the time I don't need to log on. I can't remember the last time I got logged off, without me doing it manually.
Glad to help!
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#5 2007-11-10 18:24:38
- kevin_karplus
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Re: Survey: please help us
I don't have problems with being logged off any more, but the "show new posts since last visit" feature often fails while I'm in the middle of reading posts, so that hitting the "back" button on the browser to get back the list results in a much shorter list.
There is often no way to recover the messages, since the "show recent posts" option only does one screenful.
I would prefer a system that actually kept track of the posts I had read (even if only in my browser), so that I could see which messages were new, even if I have been away for a few days or my reading was interrupted when I was only half way through the new messages.
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#6 2007-11-10 19:18:09
Re: Survey: please help us
Yeah, I should look more into the new punbb plug-ins to see if that's possible Kevin (or implement it internally). You have a Mac, right? What version of Mac OS do you have and what browser do you use?
Andres Monroy-Hernandez
Scratch Team at the MIT Media Lab
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#7 2007-11-11 12:14:16
Re: Survey: please help us
1. Mac OS 10.4.8
2. Firefox 2 mainly, sometimes Safari
3. This explains the mystery. I've often come back to the site a few days after logging in and find I am still logged in. Now I know why. I've never gotten a disconnect notice. I have the impression I end up logging in again before 15 days has passed but couldn't prove it.
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#8 2007-11-11 12:36:09
- kevin_karplus
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I run firefox 2.0.0.9 on a Mac OS 10.3.9 (G5) machine at home, but a different version of firefox on a CentOS Linux machine at work. I currently use both machines for moderating the scratch forums, but I would switch to using just the machine at home if that would allow me to keep better track of which messages I had already looked at.
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#9 2007-11-11 13:13:57
Re: Survey: please help us
i use windows internet explorer and i never have to login it is always logged on when i come to the website
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic … 041#p11041
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#10 2007-12-22 06:03:39
Re: Survey: please help us
andresmh wrote:
Some people are reporting that they are still having to log in very often. The session should last 15 days, I think this could be a problem specific to some browsers. Please respond these 3 questions to help us figure out this mystery:
1. What operating system do you use?
Example: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux.
2. What browser do you use?
Example: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7,Internet Explorer 6, Safari, Camino, Opera.
3. How often do you have to login to the website? This is how often do you have to put your username and password? Examples: "I get disconnected every five minutes! it's so annoying" or "I don't have to log in for days."
Thanks a lot for your help.
1. Windows XP Home Edition (Laptop), and Windows Xp Media Center Edition (Desktop)
2. Internet Explorer 7 and Safari for Windows, somtimes Firefox 2
3. When I switch computers-which means 
I don't 
computers 
1 , I am logged in until I go to another computer.
4. (My question) What do you thing disconnects you from scratch? I don't get disconnected (except when the power goes out)
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#13 2007-12-22 14:45:36
- MyRedNeptune
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1. Windows XP professional
2. Internet Explorer 7
3. I never log off myself, the website logs me off automatically about every two weeks.
"Soap bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness." -Zarathustra
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#14 2007-12-22 14:48:17
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ihaveamac wrote:
4. (My question) What do you thing disconnects you from scratch? I don't get disconnected (except when the power goes out)
The Scratch website automatically disconnects you after a certain amount of time (fifteen days, I think).
"Soap bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness." -Zarathustra
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#15 2007-12-22 19:20:40
- SimpleScratch
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Windows Xp/Firefox 2
Can't remember when I had to last logon it s was sos long ago
regards
Simon
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#16 2007-12-22 21:26:04
Re: Survey: please help us
1. I use Windows XP
2. Firefox 2
3. I do not have any problem with logging off when I don't want to. I log off myself about every four days.
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#20 2007-12-30 19:53:31
- NobodyKnowsNorune
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I have only had to log in 10 times since I started scratch.
I use internet explorer.
I use windows XP.
My name is Riley I ride a unicycle
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#21 2007-12-30 20:46:56
- The-Dear-Comunity
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Re: Survey: please help us
andresmh wrote:
Some people are reporting that they are still having to log in very often. The session should last 15 days, I think this could be a problem specific to some browsers. Please respond these 3 questions to help us figure out this mystery:
1. What operating system do you use?
Example: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux.
2. What browser do you use?
Example: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7,Internet Explorer 6, Safari, Camino, Opera.
3. How often do you have to login to the website? This is how often do you have to put your username and password? Examples: "I get disconnected every five minutes! it's so annoying" or "I don't have to log in for days."
Thanks a lot for your help.
1 
i want that the login sould be foever ontill you yourself log off! ]
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#22 2007-12-30 23:38:38
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1. Mac OS X (to be specific, 10.4.11)
2. Safari (I have firefox, but I rarely ever use it.)
3. Sometimes it lasts only a few minutes, but sometimes it lasts hours.
EDIT: I got a new computer (so 2 now) running OSX Leopard. The old one runs tiger. the old one logs me out a lot but the new one NEVER logs out automatically. 
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#24 2008-01-04 06:07:18
Re: Survey: please help us
1. Windows XP
2. Firefox 2.0.0.11
3. Every time I come here I have to log on, but I dont come here all the time, just every few days to check for updates.
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#25 2008-01-11 15:30:12
- student59350
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1. Mac OSX Tiger
2. Safari
3. Depends. sometimes 5 minutes, other times i can log on for a long time(like 2 weeks)
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