Dear Car Talk Community friends, Thanks for bearing with us during the launch of the new Car Talk site. You now have the opportunity to unify your community account with the rest of the Car Talk web site. This “Single-Sign On” feature allows for one account throughout the Car Talk site, whethe…

I had the same frustrating experience with FF as bscar2, but after several tries it seems to be working in FF

Hi bscar2 (and everybody else), there have been changes made that are supposed to be implemented tonight to rectify some of the issues we’ve been having. Please keep us posted on the progress.

upgraded, tried logging in, and was able to stay logged in for a bit. But, when I click the community link(forum link?) it just sends me to my “account information” setup and I can’t advance from there. I even use my bookmarked forum page in my browser, but it signs me out when I do; even going to t…

@bscar2 Unfortunately I need my fingers to code, so breaking them for me wouldn't help. There were some issues with the interaction between cartalk.com and community.cartalk.com that were causing a bit of unpredictable behaviour with the Single Sign On. I've pushed a fix for those issues this eveni…

@littlemouse I personally wrote it, and it has been the way I sign on to my own forum for over a year. http://vanillaforums.org/addon/proxyconnect-plugin The problem was unintentional and unforeseen. You seem to be representing yourself as someone who knows something about software, so I'll give yo…

SSO is perfect for a web site like this. Every web-app my team has developed for the past 3 years have all been SSO.

Tried the single sign-in link, it STILL automatically takes me to my “account information” page. When I click the community button in the links, it’ll take me to the forums, but logs me out. I can right click a forum link(general discussions for example) and have FF open in IE, and I’m logged in thr…

So to clarify what's happening right now: On these forums, the yellow expandy box at the top right does not properly work. The issue lies in the cartalk.com handling of logins. As you have probably experienced, logging in from the forums via that yellow box takes you to your cartalk.com page and no…

The CTC and the new cartalk.com

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littlemouse November 23, 2011, 10:38am 13

So, um, uhhh, how long have you been testing the Single Sign-on?

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The CTC and the new cartalk.com

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