After the read-only period yesterday the autologin fails to login on StackExchange network sites.  OS: Windows 8.1  Browser: Google Chrome 37.0.2062.76 (x64)
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My old computer broke down a few days ago, so I'm using a laptop until I can get it fixed.  As a side effect, I no longer have my usual browser cookies, so I had to log back into Stack Exchange.  While doing so, I noticed that I kept having to log in to every Stack Exchange site I visited &mdash; the usual "Welcome back [username], you've been logged in." auto-login banner seemed to be conspicuously missing.  In fact, a quick look at the "network" tab in the developer tools suggested that no requests to stackauth.com were being made at all.  Eventually, I decided to dive into .  Turns out that the code to make the global auth check and bring up the banner is simply:    gauth.checkStackAuth(StackExchange.options.stackAuthUrl);   And, what do you know, running that command from the developer console does auto-log me in.  However, the reason this code isn't being run automatically is because it's disabled in the site config (apparently for all SE sites).  For example, the page I'm typing this question on has the following config options set:  StackExchange.init( {     "locale": "en",     "stackAuthUrl": "https://stackauth.com",     "serverTime": 1408393334,     "networkMetaHostname": "meta.stackexchange.com",     "styleCode": true,     "enableUserHovercards": true,     "site": {         "name": "Meta Stack Exchange",         "description": "Q&amp;A for meta-discussion of the Stack Exchange family of Q&amp;A websites",         "isNoticesTabEnabled": true,         "recaptchaPublicKey": "6LdsB7sSAAAAAAzjgEF_Hd8vXv-C42sa_KyofaGR",         "recaptchaAudioLang": "en",         "enableNewTagCreationWarning": false,         "globalAuthDisabled": true,                // &lt;--- HERE         "isMetaSite": true,         "enableSocialMediaInSharePopup": true,         "useGoogleOAuth2": true     },     // etc.   So, apparently, global auto-login has been deliberately disabled for some reason.  Why is that, and is there any planned timeline for re-enabling it?
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It seems that all Stack Exchange sites do seem to be affected by a UX killing behaviour: it seems that every day you have to login again on each of them; they never remember your login.  For someone that is visiting these sites daily and a contributing a LOT, this is extremely annoying.  Is this so hard to implement? I don't remember when I had to re-login on Google or Facebook, still Stack&nbsp;Exchange keeps asking me to login all the time.  Affecting at least: stackoverflow.com, surperuser.com, serverfault.com, apple.stackexchenge.com, ask.ubuntu.com, ...  I tried logging in with all of these three variants, but it seems that there is no much difference between them: direct login, Google and Facebook.
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Janrain has , one of the many OpenID providers. MyOpenID will not be available starting February 1, 2014. (An   hinted at the same but did not set a date for end of service.)   This decision was made by Janrain, and Stack Exchange did not have any part in it. You can still use myOpenID to log in to Stack Exchange, but be aware that any outages in the myOpenID service will mean that you are unable to log in to Stack Exchange until Janrain fixes it – which may take several days, or weeks, or never. After February 1, you will no longer be able to use myOpenID to log in to Stack Exchange. Stack Exchange will not be able to answer any questions about why myOpenID is down or when it will be working again. If you do not have any other login credentials on your account by February 1, you will be locked out, and Stack Exchange will be unlikely to help you recover your account.  To avoid getting locked out of your Stack Exchange account, we strongly suggest that anyone using myOpenID as their primary (or even backup) login add a new login method to their Stack Exchange account.  We're also going to remove the "myOpenID" button from the sign-up/login page soon, in order to discourage new users from signing up using myOpenID.  Here's how to add a new login to your account. You must be logged into your account when you begin. (This information is also available .)  Open up your user profile page (by clicking on your login name at the top of the screen) and click the "my logins" link above the bio box on the right hand side.   You should see a list of all of your logins.  To add a new login, click "add more logins..." at the bottom of the box. Choose the new login from the list and follow the steps to confirm.    If you choose, you can remove your myOpenID login by clicking the same "my logins" link, then clicking "remove" next to myOpenID.  If you are adding a Stack Exchange OpenID, you will receive a confirmation email. You must click the link in the email to confirm your email address before the Stack Exchange OpenID will show up under "my logins". Please make sure that you are already logged into your account when you click the confirmation link; otherwise, you will create a new account that needs to be merged with your old one.    If you encounter any trouble adding logins, or accidentally create a separate account that you would like merged, please fill out our .
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I'm pretty sure that since a month or so,  seems much more eager to get rid of my session and log me out in that process. I don't mind logging in a couple of times per day, if that helps to reduce resource consumption, but the user experience isn't all that great when it happens. Here is why: I'm most often in the middle of writing a query for an MSE question, for example . So I have the edit window open and am creating a new revision of my query. When I click &quot;run,&quot; I do notice the button gets grayed-out, as it normally does, but I never get any result back. There is also no error message. To recover from this I have to copy the SQL text I have typed, open a new tab and load SEDE, log in, switch back to the stalled tab, refresh, paste the SQL text, run query. Repeat the process after 10 minutes. If the intended behavior is to log users out of their session on such short notice (I recall sessions lived for 24 hours), can there then be a slightly better handling in the browser of that state, so it is clear you're logged out once you click the run button? I prefer, however, to have the longer allowed sessions back. I'm experiencing this behavior mostly in Chrome on Win 10.
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Update: Universal login is in place and considered &quot;done&quot;. If you see anything weird, please submit new bug reports.   As y'all know, our current flavor of &quot;global authentication&quot; leaves a few things to be desired. It's flaky, requires a page refresh, etc. etc. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just sign in once and be automatically logged in across the network?  We are ready to roll out Stage 1 of Project &quot;Make Authentication Suck Less&quot;. It is live as of a few minutes ago. What this means right now:  When you log into any Q&amp;A site on the stackexchange.com domain, you will be automatically logged into all other Q&amp;A sites on the stackexchange.com domain + stackexchange.com itself.   is excluded from this.   , , and other Q&amp;A sites with their own domains will still use the old flow.  We are going to recognize you in some ways on sites where you don't have a profile. This is still a work in progress, but most notably you will see &quot;join this community&quot; in the top bar instead of &quot;sign up&quot; and &quot;log in&quot;.   But I use multiple accounts! What do? We aren't intending to break the ability to run multiple accounts. The same guidelines as before still apply — we don't officially support that, you might end up with an accidental automatic merge if you're not careful with your credentials, any interaction between the accounts is right out, and so on. If you're already using different browsers or different browser profiles for your accounts, nothing will change for you. If you are somehow logged into multiple accounts in the same browser... I'm sorry to say, but that's a bug even for our current global auth setup. You will now only be able to log into one at a time, and you'll need to log out when you want to switch. (Or start using different browsers.) What's next:  Remember  we tested a few months ago? It's coming back. Stage 2: bring other domains into the fold (this is also live now) Stage 3: make cross-domain experience smoother and support browsers that reject third-party cookies in all conditions (looking at you, Safari) - this is not currently feasible. Safari users and users who reject third-party cookies will need to sign in separately to every second-level domain (e.g. stackexchange.com, stackoverflow.com, etc).  If you see any issues… Good luck, because you probably can't log in to report them here. =) But seriously, let us know via the contact form linked at the bottom of any page. If you are able to log in, report issues here on meta as normal. So, in conclusion…
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For about 2 weeks, multiple people (around 10 that I know of) in our company are having trouble accessing Stack Overflow; independently of the browser, and on Linux as well as Windows. The symptom is that assets loaded from cdn.sstatic.net keep waiting forever or until they time out.   On my machine the status is that at some point those requests time out and a version of the page without any images or CSS appears.  For some Windows users reboots help, for others it doesn't.   Meta Stack Overflow (now Meta Stack Exchange) always loaded for me.  A workaround for my machine was to disable IPv6 temporarily on Linux with the command echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6.  Note that no other site (that I visit) has been affected like this.  Update 2013-08-12: our network guy did some checking and insists the problem lies with Cloudflare. We seem to have issues when trying to connect to them with IPv6. We can't go around and disable our IPv6 Support since we need it for our internal infrastructure. We employ the following workaround (sadly only works with Firefox):   Go to about:config find the configuration key called network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains Set it to the following list of domains (or add them if you already have something in this key): cdn.sstatic.net,www.cloudflare.net,cdn-careers.sstatic.net
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I used to open many interesting questions from Stack Overflow (10..80 tabs) in my browser and then read them slowly over weeks. My browser (Opera) knows to reopen the last tabs but I'm afraid it has an aggressive caching mechanism.  By that I mean it shows me I'm still logged in but when I try to post a response or a comment I'm given a strange error message (for example: Cannot add comment because the answer has been locked or deleted) when all that is wrong is that I'm no longer logged in.   Refreshing the page prior to posting (along with re-logging in) solves the problem.  My issue is: shouldn't the error message state something along the lines: "you're not logged in suckaa..."?
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I'm pretty sure this question has been asked, but I cannot find a solution. I use firefox allot more than chrome and I can't log into any stack website (including stack exchange) with firefox. I get no error in the developer console (not sure if I'm supposed to) and it is really frustrating. Is there any fix to this.  What keeps happening is my page just refreshes again and again and again and it never ends.
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If I go to e.g.  while logged in at Data.SE, the ##UserId## parameter isn't populated like it usually is. This was originally only happening for some sites, but now it seems to be happening for all of them.
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I have an account on Stack Exchange but when I try to login to  I do not see the option Login with Stack Exchange.       Why is this option now not available?
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Took a few seconds to find how to get back to chat on SO. I quickly found that it was hiding inside the StackExchange drop down along with Blog and Log out. Having these links inside the "site switcher" seems a tad out of place and calls for concern personally.   Any ideas for an alternative to these objects location?
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The above link talks about how auto login is implemented in SO. Answer to that post points to this solution.     Now in 2016, if i access another SO site after logging into one, we get logged into the second site immediately without any page refresh.   I am curious to know how this "without any page refresh" login thing work.
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In the  tab, for most of the sites there is no top user displayed.  I didn't see any error or warning in the browser's console and network tabs.  GIF for the same:        Configuration:  OS: Windows 7 Mozilla Firefox : 59.0b5 (64-bit) Google Chrome: Version 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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On  page for a site where I don't yet have an account, if I select the "Log in using Stack Exchange" box, when I hit enter from the password form, nothing happens.  Minor, but...
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I know that we don't have automatic login for the Data Explorer, but what's with the automatic timeout/logout?  There have been times that I am logged into the site, maybe I walk away for a little bit, and I come back to being logged out.    Is there a reason for logging us out of Data Explorer?  If so, is it possible to either remove the timeout or extend the period of time before timeout?
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Here's what is happening; everytime I go to Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com, NOT meta) with Firefox, it gives me the "Welcome back" tab that pops up from the top. Whenever I click in the "click here to refresh the page" link, all it does is refresh the page without logging me back in.  Even if I try to log in using the "log in" button at the top, all it does is pop up the tab that says "Welcome name here, you're being redirected." The problem is I'm not being logged in, not to mention that it keeps refreshing the page over and over again without giving me a choice to log in with Facebook.  For some reason, I was capable of logging in to Meta Stack Overflow using Firefox. I am still unable to log in to Stack Overflow. Any ideas?
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I went ahead and added my work account to my personal account's   chrome session and then revisited the google auth link from my main SO   account, and this time it gave me the 2 options, and I successfully   added it. However, I don't think it should work this way! You should   get that screen that either allows you to select an existing logged-in   account, or add a new one.      @RudyOnRails Yeah, I agree. Looks like there's a parameter we can pass   along for that, though I'm not sure off the top of my head how much   work it'd be for us to start doing that for the "add login" path.   Could you do me a favor and write up a quick feature-request for this   so we can track it easier? Thanks! – Adam Lear♦ 20 hours ago