Use of the site

[Scud]

Logging into the site using the login at the upper right of the screen logs you into (1) The Blitz Website and (2) the Forums area of the Blitz website. Think of them as two separate entities, not uncommon with websites that also host a forum.

Logging into just the forum area will allow you to post on the forums, but is the reason KKR can't log games on the Blitz website, since he isn't logged in there.

The solution is to simply login using the top right site-wide login.

The forum software the Blitz uses is third party. Raz didn't write the code for it. To remove that login would be work he'd rather not perform, since everytime the software is updated he'd have to go through the same hoops all over again.

Believe me, this has been discussed ad nauseum amonst site officers. Since the workaround is so incredibly simple, however, we defer to Raz's decision to leave it alone, since his efforts to run and maintain the site for us is a "labor of love".

As for tracking cookies, it's just the way web browsers are made to work. They were invented before the birth of the Blitz. When you login to any database driven site, the site implants a little identifier on your hard drive. Many people thought this was a privacy invasion or even a way to implant nefarious software on their computers, so browsers offered a "block cookies" option. Now they're considered routinely harmless. So when I visit the Blitz, the website checks my cookies folder, sees there's a blitz cookie with my personal login information, checks it against it's saved data and not only lets me in, but says "Welcome back, Scud".

In KKR's case, though, it's a little different... It's magic.

(Just teasing you, Rod )

Dave