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titan wrote:Yes, but it's not obvious that's the place to look. They weren't having any problem with the forums, which is what you would associate with the new phpBB. It certainly wasn't obvious to me why a change in the forums would suddenly cause the front page comment login to stop working, particularly because that exact same login appeared to be working with the new phpBB-based forum.You would have found the solution by reading the thread about the new phpBB.
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UberGerbil wrote:titan wrote:Yes, but it's not obvious that's the place to look. They weren't having any problem with the forums, which is what you would associate with the new phpBB. It certainly wasn't obvious to me why a change in the forums would suddenly cause the front page comment login to stop working, particularly because that exact same login appeared to be working with the new phpBB-based forum.You would have found the solution by reading the thread about the new phpBB.
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mattsteg wrote:Yeah. On page 6. In fact derFunkenstein posted about it just a couple of comments after I posted the solution, and he didn't see it.UberGerbil wrote:titan wrote:Yes, but it's not obvious that's the place to look. They weren't having any problem with the forums, which is what you would associate with the new phpBB. It certainly wasn't obvious to me why a change in the forums would suddenly cause the front page comment login to stop working, particularly because that exact same login appeared to be working with the new phpBB-based forum.You would have found the solution by reading the thread about the new phpBB.
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It's also buried in a long-ass thread.
UberGerbil wrote:I had the same problem. The username field is now case sensitive. You have you enter your nic exactly the way you entered it when you originally registered: Kunikos not kunikos. (If you're using FF or another browser with a password manager make sure it gets updated too).
UberGerbil wrote:Yeah. On page 6. In fact derFunkenstein posted about it just a couple of comments after I posted the solution, and he didn't see it.
Kunikos wrote:It didn't make any sense to me, either, which is why it took so long for me to figure it out. But sroylance said something about rewriting the hashing algorithm, so it's probably a side-effect of that (though why it doesn't also apply in the forums I still have no idea).OK, well, I'll give it a try. But I don't get why it's case sensitive only for the comments page and not for the forums themselves.
derFunkenstein wrote:Well, I kind of hid the answer.Yeah, I can't read.
The Egg wrote:One person who posted something about the issue. Without knowing read counts we don't know how many people had an issue, found and read this thread which solved their problem, but didn't post about it one way or the other. That said, is this still an issue or are the login systems consistently permissive (or at least unified) wrt case on the user name?I have nothing to add, but we can probably pull the stickie off this. Only one person with an issue in over 3 years.