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To: Openurmind
But you wouldn’t want to hassle everyone with it to log in every day. But making it default as “Remember me” is a big problem.

I never have to login in to FR except with a new browser, but I have been a single user for decades.

I think a lot of this worry comes from the habits of the users themselves.

Exactly.

Google is the worst about this as I pointed out with a post here one time. And you don’t have to go to Google.

Yet Google does seem to take security seriously as regards outside threats. If I login on a different browser or PC then it tells me, and last week it told me of some of my info being on the dark web. And it has called me even on a landline with a one-time passcode sometimes.

y I absolutely love this old light webscript still being used after all these years. It was one of my first comments after I joined here. It is the ultimate in old school simplicity and a lot of the member love it. So to keep it simple

Indeed, thank God. As said, an edit feature would be good, but for a desktop user at least, it is superior to any forum I have been on.

Assuming “Remember me” times out after a number of hours. An additional field could be added to the login page. This additional field would require an additional secret second password distributed from the site to members once a week.

I think most would object.

294 posted on 03/16/2025 4:44:14 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212

“I think most would object.”

Well here is the reality of that. If you implement anything that even requires one extra mouse click it will immediately be unpopular because it is “too much work”.

Well, leave it insecure then so that no one has to make that one extra click with the mouse. At some point common sense priorities have to be made...


300 posted on 03/16/2025 5:03:37 PM PDT by Openurmind
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