Attention WotC: Drop the must-sign-in thing until it works, please.

[Plane Sailing]

I wonder why they have a cookie only set for two weeks though. Why not the option of a pretty much permanent cookie sign-in like on ENworld and most of the rest of the internet world.

Either 'remember me' or 'don't remember me' makes sense. 'remember me for two weeks' doesn't make so much sense IMO.

 

[hexgrid]

The big question is: Why on earth do some people use email address as the log in? That's what a user name is for. That crap just really fries me.

Because an email address is already a unique identifier, and something people are more likely to remember than a username created on the spot.

 

[howandwhy99]

Maybe everyone's password was reset?

That's what happened to me.

 

[Mercule]

Because an email address is already a unique identifier, and something people are more likely to remember than a username created on the spot.

Eh, I suppose I'm biased by having more email accounts than I do screen names to rotate through.

Still, I can see it as an option, but it shouldn't be exclusive. Again, that's what user names are for.

 

[Stormborn]

I too am having problems and none of the various ways I have tried to fix it have gotten it to work. I have simply given up and will try again on Monday. I agree that things like "stay logged in", "forgot password", and "sign up here" should be on any log in page.

 

[Doug McCrae]

I had a lot of trouble. My old login seemed to be broken so I had to look up my yahoo email address and make a new account before I could read that 'Points of Light' article. Annoying.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

*nt*

 

[Christian]

Eh, I suppose I'm biased by having more email accounts than I do screen names to rotate through.

Still, I can see it as an option, but it shouldn't be exclusive. Again, that's what user names are for.

I get crossed up when my login to these boards expires, because is is the only board on the 'net where I use this particular username. I have two or three, which are slight variants of each other, that I use absolutely everywhere else. But there's no way to get a board to accept 'Christian' as your username unless you're, like, the third or so person to sign up for it.

But somehow, when my cookie expires, I can never remember that this is the place I managed to slip that through.

 

[olshanski]

Add me to the chorus of "no problems".

That is, no problems after about a week of frustration. First I needed a new login for Gleemax (my old one didn't port).

Then my new one disappeared and the login names changed and I had to sign up again with the new one.

Then, My old one finally ported, but it didn't work. Getting the login to work was rough.

Now, somehow, my old one and new one are both tied together, and I can switch between them at will (if I wanted to).

So there you have it... spend a few hours working on it and you won't have problems either! Doesn't everybody have a few hours that they can spare working on passwords and usernames to log in to a system that should normally take 2 minutes tops?

 

[WayneLigon]

I had a problem this morning; I had to for some reason do the migration thing again to get into D&D Insider from Gleemax, then spent an amazingly frustrating time until I realized that it changes your freaking username you use to log in with to your email address you used to set up the account. What the hell was that all about? Quit reinventing the wheel with different and unexpected weird stuff.