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Message Inbreak beers 9957 º 11:31 Mon 8/7/2017 Now, who is the boss....you, or the so-called "minority share".......
Message Inbreak beers 9957 º 11:36 Mon 8/7/2017 How many programmers does it take to make Ratebeer great again.....
Message adamnowek beers 7153 º places 117 º 14:38 Mon 8/7/2017 Originally posted by Inbreak How many programmers does it take to make Ratebeer great again..... More than what they have now, that’s for sure.

Message DutchDrebus beers 6996 º places 47 º 14:43 Mon 8/7/2017 Originally posted by joet I’m definitely not ditching the site. Ha ha! Stop with the crazy pills. I should explain that our former process involving one or two programmers was optimized for speed and allowed us to turn around many code changes daily. With a larger team, we utilize a more formal development structure that targets code releases every 10 days. This means we all need to be more patient about seeing changes. I am feeling this pain as much as anyone else. Would the fix take up to 10 days if suddenly all banners weren’t displayed anymore?
Message joet P admin beers 2900 º places 125 º 14:47 Mon 8/7/2017 More info on how to clear cookies for a single site in Chrome https://superuser.com/questions/548096/how-can-i-clear-cookies-for-a-single-site
Message jcr beers 3469 º places 17 º 16:08 Mon 8/7/2017 I’ve cleared Ratebeer cookies in both FF (54.0.1) and Chrome (57.0.2) on my Mac. Still have to log in or confirm my email address every time I go to RB. Also still getting kicked off after 20 minutes or so. Started happening when I renewed my premium membership three weeks ago.
Message FatPhil P beers 26266 º places 998 º 16:51 Mon 8/7/2017 Confirming your email address involves nothing but clicking on it. This does not prove you are in posession of any secret knowledge (in the same way a password does), and therefore has NO SECURITY WHATSOEVER. As soon as you, or whoever follows you on the library computer, click on that email address, RB will log you, or her, in. In which case, there was no point in being "logged out" in the first place. RB’s just dicking with you. Worse - the fact that the corner of the page says "Login", the implication is that you’re actually properly logged out, session cookies etc. blanked at either end, or preferably deleted, and you can walk away from the computer with no risk of impersonation. But as clicking on it proves, you actually aren’t properly logged out - it still knows who you are/were, and how to reactivate your session. This is terrible security engineering.

Message malvrich beers 931 º places 5 º 18:37 Mon 8/7/2017 Originally posted by FatPhil Confirming your email address involves nothing but clicking on it. This does not prove you are in posession of any secret knowledge (in the same way a password does), and therefore has NO SECURITY WHATSOEVER. As soon as you, or whoever follows you on the library computer, click on that email address, RB will log you, or her, in. In which case, there was no point in being "logged out" in the first place. RB’s just dicking with you. Worse - the fact that the corner of the page says "Login", the implication is that you’re actually properly logged out, session cookies etc. blanked at either end, or preferably deleted, and you can walk away from the computer with no risk of impersonation. But as clicking on it proves, you actually aren’t properly logged out - it still knows who you are/were, and how to reactivate your session. This is terrible security engineering. Happened to me again just as I was reading thru the thread. As an IT admin also, before long I just sucked it up, as I’m quite used to periodic implementation of some totally asinine (in)security measure.
Message LazyPyro beers 8221 º places 63 º 23:52 Mon 8/7/2017 Originally posted by joet More info on how to clear cookies for a single site in Chrome https://superuser.com/questions/548096/how-can-i-clear-cookies-for-a-single-site Most people already know how to do this, and it doesn’t matter anyway because it doesn’t do anything to fix the issue we’re all having.
Message Marduk P beers 22023 º places 969 º 01:01 Tue 8/8/2017 Originally posted by Inbreak How many programmers does it take to make Ratebeer great again..... None, everything is already great (if your head is buried in the sand).