Why does Fluther ask me to log in occasionally ?

I have no clue i was wondering this myself. It randomly logs me out and i have to re-login at first i thought i accidentally deleted my cookies but i have no clue why it happens.

Maybe admins can clue us in-I’m not an IT whiz, but my guess is that it may have something to do with their servers and authentication mechanism; maybe for safety it resets? But I’ll defer to the Fluther gods on this one…

Pure guesswork… they probably set cookies in your browser to expire after x amount of time (that would be the timing part of the mechanism). As to the why, since your Fluther score is tied, at least in part, to consecutive days of logon, they’re probably wanting to make sure you’re you.

Actually, we were doing some server cleanup/optimization this weekend and mistakenly logged everyone out.

Sorry about that—it’s all part of our goal to make the servers faster and better.

I was under the impression that it was good for us to log out when we go to sleep and log on the next morning when we awake and reflexively seek out the latest on Fluther. Do they want to us stay logged in all the time? Am I losing valuable and sought after points because I log out on a regular basis?

@skfinkel No, you don’t lose or gain points by logging out or staying logged in. It’s just a matter of convenience and privacy. If no one else uses your computer, there’s no real reason to log yourself out. But you’re not missing out on anything if you do.

That being said, if you log out, and then browse the site without logging yourself back in, you could lose the score increase you get from visiting the site two days in a row.

Thank you. I can just stay logged in. Perfect.