Please stop SSO from logging us out every day

[Elfy]

There isn't a problem with, say, Ubuntu Discourse. So that can't be the problem.

SSO was shoehorned into vBulletin - yes it is the problem.

[Paddy Landau]

The UF Staff does not administer SSO, so we can't do anything about this. We are stuck with it, too.

OK, so who administers SSO? I will make a request to them.

But, as I said earlier, Ubuntu Discourse doesn't suffer from this problem, so are you sure that's the problem?

Please let me know the contact person for SSO.

[coffeecat]

Frankly, you'd be flogging a dead horse.

Discourse doesn't suffer this problem because discourse is an ubuntu.com subdomain. So are most of the other Ubuntu websites which are linked to Ubuntu One SSO. The main problem here is that Vbulletin, the forum software, simply wasn't designed to work with SSO login, neither does it do so easily. That it does at all is due to custom code developed especially for the forum.

But let's get a few things clear now:

1 - The forum admins never wanted Ubuntu One SSO in the first place.

2 - The forum admins were not particularly happy when it was introduced.

3 - The admins are far from happy at the extra work that Ubuntu One SSO makes for them. And even more unhappy at all the extra work provided by people who do not read instructions before blundering in here with duplicate accounts.

4 - Ubuntu One SSO was always going to happen anyway, but was precipitated by the security breach last year.

5 - Ubuntu One SSO is unlikely to go away any time soon.

And as a constructive suggestion to this:

1. Click the link in the email.
2. Scroll to the top of the page.
3. Press Login with SSO.
4. Press Yes, log me in.
5. Wait a little.
6. Close the tab (because the forum has returned to the home page).
7. Return to the email.
8. Click the link in the email (again).

Change your default subscription mode to "through my control panel". Which is what I do. My routine:

1. Login - two clicks only.
2. Click on "settings".
3. There are all my subscribed threads that have new posts.
4. Work through them one by one.
5. No fuss; no bother.