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Imagine taking away a feature that some people said didn't always work rather than fixing it!
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I agree with SLLF. Very common these days is to have the primary login at the top (go figure), and then provide options, such as the icons SLLF mentions just below the primary login -- just as SLLF suggests. I would love to see that. And I think it will be more intuitive to the first-time or casual user. Vic
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20240125 Is/Isnot:
Seems to me that one filament of this thread is whether the user (me being one) is on a desktop or a laptop.
Desktops can go to the lockscreen after some specified time, or remain 'open'. Might be a factor.
Laptops (LT), on the other hand (whether under your arm or on top of a desk), have the feature of being able to close the screen down over the keyboard and putting the LT to 'sleep'. This is different from shutting down the LT or desktop altogether. Might be a factor.
Not to be confused with data types of 'port' and i/o, sounds like some of these incidents may be related to how a LT is ported/transported/carried. 'I don't have the answer, but I certainly admire the problem.' Vic
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This Community topic was the closest I found to the topic of my concern:
My topic: is Please put the FamilySearch login fields at the top. The login options currently listed (20240125) at the top I recommend relocating to below the FamilySearch login fields, where I expect 'options' to be.
My topic: isnot having to log in multiple times, isnot keep me logged-in for some period of time, isnot "where did the 'keep me logged in' checkbox go.
20240125 Vic
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mod note - a duplicate post was removed and several comments were merged into this existing discussion.
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This issue persists months after a thread with an overwhelmingly negative response to the change. I've noticed no difference in cookie validity and have to login frequently still. However, I'd suggest site admins look at the data.
Near EOY, open source projects get a significant increase in commits due to people's having more free time during the holidays. What was the YOY comparison for records indexed during the month of December? If it's a double digit percentage drop, I'd suggest you start making HTTP sessions work correctly, because you're losing engagement.
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I cannot stayed logged in for more than an hour or so without automatically being logged out. This makes it much more difficult to do family history work, and honestly is so frustrating that I find myself losing interest in the work when it seems that developers are actively spending time making the site harder to use.
Please being back the 2 week log in option.
@ Paul W
>>FamilySearch representatives have confirmed remaining signed in for up to 24 hours should now be the position for us all, so you should not be having your problem if that is indeed the case.
unfortunately that is not the case for me. I get logged out in about an hour.
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The ability to stay signed in for two weeks was a very helpful feature.
Why is it gone? Can we have it back?
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Undefined acronyms are potentially misleading. Overwhelmingly negative is not evidence of anything without all numbers related to your position. You should look at any data available. Paragraph 2 rubbish; too many problems to list them.
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What about a remember me checkbox for username only for signin?
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Your browser should be able to supply that. Mine certainly does (Firefox in Win10).
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I agree that this new sign-in procedure has made familysearch far less user friendly. For me it makes it practically unusable. When I'm working on a family line and something else crops up, I may leave the familysearch page and do something else in another tab. This happens continually and after a few weeks the browser tabs all say 'Sign in' with no clue as to what for. My current state is I have three browser windows open, each with 20 or 30 tabs, nearly all of which say 'Sign in'. In the past I could do so just once and all the tabs would revert to the page url that it used to be. But now I have to sign in on every tab and the previous page arrow no longer goes back to the previous page, ie. the one that I was working on before the automatic sign out. Please can someone give me a work around for this issue. The link to show how to do an automatic sign in with Firefox doesn't actually show how to do that. My attempt to get that to work now won't solve my issue, I need to get back to the page I was on before the automatic sign out. How has it happened that such an unloved change has been foisted on us?
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Please consider bringing back the "stay signed in" feature/checkbox as I will go a few hours to a couple of days working on something and when I'm automatically signed out after a period of inactivity I am not returned to the page I was on and have to recreate where I was and what I was working on. Thanks, Bobbie
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Bobbie, there have already been 20 or 30 suggestions made with the same request. I don't think it is going to happen.
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That's a great video @Pauline Roka Nathan, really clear and I can't imagine anyone would be left still wondering!
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Everyone who does not already know the consquences should be made aware that "stay logged in" is a significant security risk. These days many people use their equipment for multiple tasks including mail, instant messaging, shopping, browsing across many domains, and financial transactions. There are flaws being exposed on a regular basis that enable data intended for one purpose to be exposed to functions embedded within other less-scrupulous web pages and apps. Staying logged in to a site while you do other things exposes your credentials to these nasties. If you feel the need to stay logged in, then do it on one browser that you use for nothing else, and use a different browser or app for your other activities.
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@Re Searching said:
"Everyone who does not already know the consquences should be made aware that "stay logged in" is a significant security risk. ... Staying logged in to a site while you do other things exposes your credentials to these nasties. "
I'm not sure I agree with the failure modes suggested here. The way the site is set up now, I can be in FamilySearch in one tab on my browser and also, log onto EvilSite dot com on another tab in the same browser session. If EvilSite dot com can genuinely look at my FamilySearch stuff then the current set-up doesn't stop that happening because I'm still using FS in the other tab.
The only way to overcome such an issue is to only have one tab open in one browser - and no more. Or… sandbox the tasks for each tab so that they can't cross-talk in the feared fashion. And I think some (at least) browser software is sandboxed in that fashion.
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