As reported here: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...-platform-feedback-wanted.380360/post-6878461 member @jbau reporting a limited persistance of the choice suggesting the use of session variable is not long lived enough for the purpose. Using long lived cookies for non-logged in users would be ideal. And database storage of members' settings would be better for multi device usage.
Hey. The dev team is on Christmas holidays until early January. We'll start to see some action once they're back. Between now and then we're in a triage phase and prioritizing all the issues so they can be addresses in the right order of importance.
This is something that ties in to an earlier request I made with the dev team about storing these preferences in the database rather than a session. I'm going to update this to "scheduled".
This is something that ties in to an earlier request I made with the dev team about storing these preferences in the database rather than a session. I'm going to update this to "scheduled".
Great, thanks Jason. Happy holidays to you and the dev team!
A related question: Will the database also remember the "wide" setting? I'm finding the "dark and wide" combo to be my settings of choice, it's very easy on these aging eyes. Right now the wide setting has to be reasserted after every login, and is unavailable if not logged in..
A related question: Will the database also remember the "wide" setting? I'm finding the "dark and wide" combo to be my settings of choice, it's very easy on these aging eyes. Right now the wide setting has to be reasserted after every login, and is unavailable if not logged in..
Interesting. My settings stay where they are no need to reset them. But I rarely view the forum not logged in. I'll check to see if settings carry fover rom Mac to Windows.
That is interesting. My "dark" setting applies after logging in from both a Win7 and XP machine, but neither remember the "wide" setting even after login.
I set my theme to Dark, narrow, no sidebar on the Mac. Waited over an hour and moved to Windows. I have exactly the same settings here now.
However, when not logged in on Windows, I saw the default layout. That's what I would expect, as the fourm doesn't know who I am when not logged in.
However, when not logged in on Windows, I saw the default layout. That's what I would expect, as the fourm doesn't know who I am when not logged in.
Try doing the same except with "wide" setting". Narrow is the system default, so I would expect it to "carry over".
An aside: it is positively weird getting emails with a Subject line that starts with "Under Investigation"... every time I see one, I think "Oh sh!t, what did I do now..." 🙂
Jut wanted to confirm that, on two different Windoze machines (Win7 and XP), the "wide" setting is not remembered from one login to the next.
That's how I would like it to work.
It will also give us good stats to see how many people are making use of each theme, width setting, sidebar on/off, etc.
Session data is tied to a cookie, cookies are tied to a browser, I doubt the apparent light-weight implementation would go so far as to try to merge session data (and decide which data to delete / has preference in the merge) if someone logged in. That's all better handled by just putting this in the database.