mopgoblin on 8/1/2004 at 23:23

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This is mopgoblin, in case the forums are still confused about that...

About short time ago, my browser refused to load the forums or the TTLG main page, displaying a blank window rather than any type of error. I closed that browser tab, and did other stuff for about ten minutes. On returning to the forums (by letting the browser auto-complete the URL for the index), I was apparently logged in as Shadowcat (that was the name above <i>View New Posts</i>, and I could see Staff Discussion and the Gulag of Lost Threads). The time appeared to be forty minutes behind the setting I use (GMT + 12, since the forums don't have + 13), although it may well have been an older page using Shadowcat's time setting. Recent (last 24 hours) threads were visible in the "Last Post" entries for various forums.

Logging out, then logging in with my own account (I normally use auto-login) seems to have fixed the problem for now. However, this may not be the first time this has happened - about a week or two ago, I noticed Staff Discussion and the Gulag of Lost Threads were visible in the main index, but I assumed it was a one-off error, and didn't check to see if the forums thought I was someone else. I think they disappeared on a refresh, but I'm not sure.

<b>Edit</b>: looking at the "last post" threads, it appears that the index page which thinks I'm Shadowcat must be cached from a little more than one hour ago.

David on 9/1/2004 at 19:41

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Ok, I've just run through yours and Shadowcat's IP listings only to discover that while being totally different for the most part they do share the same IP on two occasions (which tallies with the number of times you've noticed this) which the forums have resoved to: <b>netcache1-acld.auckland.clix.net.nz</b> and <b>httpproxy.clear.net.nz</b>.
To me this suggests that your (different) ISPs both use the same caching/proxy service and that you were not actually viewing a "live" copy of the forums and would not have been able to view the Staff forums.

I have contacted Jellsoft regarding this, and I will posts the response I get from them. If you notice this again could you please make a post in this forum to see who the forums actually have you logged in as?

Cheers.

Shadowcat on 10/1/2004 at 04:28

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Well earlier today I was recognised as mopgoblin (check your PM for details, David), and just now I connected as was recognised as Zygoptera !

These two occasions today are the first times I can recall this happening to me. As it had happened twice in succession I figured perhaps it wasn't only me, so I checked here and found this thread. I attempted to reply (as Zygoptera), and the editing screen seemed to take a while to load, and had recognised me as Shadowcat once it appeared, which is good :)

So I was just seeing a cached version of the "Welcome back" page that Zygoptera last looked at, then?

mopgoblin on 10/1/2004 at 13:51

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I got another index page with Shadowcat's name on it a while ago, and it also threw the "new private message" popup box at me. It appears the forums figure out who I am whenever I click a link or refresh the page - on clicking the link to "TTLG Staff Conference", I got the usual "Bugger off, you're not allowed in here" message, and I get a page which recognises me on open forums, including those which Shadowcat moderates. As before, the index page came from a typed URL in a new browser tab. Although I had been reading the forums only a few minutes earlier, the page I got was over half an hour old.

David on 12/1/2004 at 10:09

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I believe we don't have control over it but I am still waiting for Jellsoft to confirm that.
Writing to the caching company/whatever may be a good idea, I shall look into that.