Bug fixes and other changes to TSF

[Robert602]

Apologies, i thought this might come under the 'other changes' and improvements refered to by Robert at the top of the thread.

To be fair this thread is intended for feedback/bug reports relating to the changes we've been working on (ie - the ones in that list in my first post). Other suggestions are of course welcome in another thread, but unless they're quite quick to implement you might have to wait a while for us to deal with current problems first. (FYI, at the moment I'm looking into logouts, bugs in forum organisation and display, and 'thread moved' notices failing to redirect properly)

[Robert602]

Ok, I think the logout issue may now be resolved. If anyone has any further problems with this please do let me know.

(Technical bit, the opinion of anyone with expertise here is welcome)
TSF sets 3 cookies to store screen resolution information (don't ask me why since TSF is fixed width, but anyway...). The cookie path was previously left unset, fine on stock vB but with the SEO URLs we have here browsers were setting 3 new cookies for every different forum section visited - potentially amounting to dozens.

Since most browsers have a relatively low maximum limit on the number of cookies per domain (often 50 but sometimes 20) my theory is that TSF was overrunning that limit. This would result in unpredictable (and browser dependent) behaviour - possibly including tracking and session cookies being pushed out and thus a forced logout.

So I've put in the obvious fix of manually setting the cookie path to root. That'll stop TSF creating more than about 10 at once, well within browser limits. Fingers crossed it'll be the end of problems.

[April madness]

Robert, I have a problem on this computer, that I can log on the forum only when I check "keep me logged in" option, when I don't check it, it simply returns to the page that says that I am not logged in...