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Posts: 415 | Thanked: 193 times | Joined on Jun 2009 @ A place with no mountains
#99
I've been active on the forum. Apparently I never had an account on the "main site" which is a surprise to me. (I didn't realize single sign on was not implemented.)

I think the following steps either indicate a bug (or complete incompetence on my part):
  1. Today I went to http://maemo.org/ and clicked the register button.
  2. This took me to https://garage.maemo.org/account/register.php. I registered with username mountainx.
  3. I went to https://garage.maemo.org/account/login.php and logged in with my username and password.
  4. I went to http://maemo.org/profile/view/mountainx/ and I got this error message:
    Error 404: Page could not be found.
    The requested URL /profile/view/mountainx/ could not be found on this server.
  5. I went to http://maemo.org/ which is where I started the registration process. I logged in using my known username (lowercase) and correct password. I got this message:
    Username or password was invalid.
  6. I went to https://garage.maemo.org/ (behold, I'm still logged in!). So I log out and I log in (I know my username and password). Now I'm logged in again.
  7. Again, I try to access my profile because I have proven that I can log in using my username "mountainx". http://maemo.org/profile/view/mountainx/ again gives a 404.
For someone that has been posting on the maemo forums almost every day and who runs several Drupal websites, I can see how people would view this as not user friendly. People can't even log in to my Drupal site when the process is as simple as pie. Will the average person go through the steps I did above?

And for me to go through all those steps and still be unable to log in at the home page of the main site (http://maemo.org/, the page from which I registered), I am left bewildered.
 

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