Avast Forum redirecting to forum main page after page refresh

[bob3160]

This may not effect you since you don't request reply notifications.

I'm sorry but this has nothing to do with this.

I'm pretty sure that DavidR misunderstood a bit how this works & did the tests (and reporting of it) too a bit wrong. I bet that this is what he did:

1) open "Show unread posts" page
2) open some other topic page
3) waited 1+ hours
4) refreshed the "Show unread posts" page
= redirect to main page
5) then right after previous step, refreshed the other topic page
= no redirect (this is perfectly normal because in step 4, the 1st redirecting also updates to a new 1 hour limit -> no redirect in step 5)

(this is the 3rd time I'm trying to explain this same thing, twice I've asked DavidR without reply)

You seem to forget that we, which includes David and any one else not noted as an Avast Employee, are avast! users.
We don't work for Avast. I suggest that you address your replies accordingly.

And you are a two faced liar, bob3160! Whether paid or not, you DO work for Avast so your opinions as an Avast user are subject to scrutiny. https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=78426.0  <$1alt="" title="" onresizestart="return false;" id="smiley__$2" style="padding: 0 3px 0 3px;" />

I suggest you get your fact straight before calling someone a liar..... 

I do Computer Security Seminars for and before members of Computer Clubs, Groups of computer users, Churches, Synagogues, etc.
which are sponsored by Avast. (Simply means they pay the expenses.) That's a far cry from working for Avast.

[Simion]

This may not effect you since you don't request reply notifications.

I'm sorry but this has nothing to do with this.

I'm pretty sure that DavidR misunderstood a bit how this works & did the tests (and reporting of it) too a bit wrong. I bet that this is what he did:

1) open "Show unread posts" page
2) open some other topic page
3) waited 1+ hours
4) refreshed the "Show unread posts" page
= redirect to main page
5) then right after previous step, refreshed the other topic page
= no redirect (this is perfectly normal because in step 4, the 1st redirecting also updates to a new 1 hour limit -> no redirect in step 5)

(this is the 3rd time I'm trying to explain this same thing, twice I've asked DavidR without reply)

You seem to forget that we, which includes David and any one else not noted as an Avast Employee, are avast! users.
We don't work for Avast. I suggest that you address your replies accordingly.

And you are a two faced liar, bob3160! Whether paid or not, you DO work for Avast so your opinions as an Avast user are subject to scrutiny. https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=78426.0  <$1alt="" title="" onresizestart="return false;" id="smiley__$2" style="padding: 0 3px 0 3px;" />

I suggest you get your fact straight before calling someone a liar..... 

I do Computer Security Seminars for and before members of Computer Clubs, Groups of computer users, Churches, Synagogues, etc.
which are sponsored by Avast. (Simply means they pay the expenses.) That's a far cry from working for Avast.

Really? I consider it working for a company when you are promoting their products.

[bob3160]

There's a big difference between recommending a program I've used for the past 10 years and promoting a product.
I also recommend Malwarebytes, Winpatrol, Ccleaner and about 20 other programs and don't work for any of them either.

[Simion]

There's a big difference between recommending a program I've used for the past 10 years and promoting a product.
I also recommend Malwarebytes, Winpatrol, Ccleaner and about 20 other programs and don't work for any of them either.

Do "Malwarebytes, Winpatrol, Ccleaner and about 20 other programs" pay your expenses?

[bob3160]

There's a big difference between recommending a program I've used for the past 10 years and promoting a product.
I also recommend Malwarebytes, Winpatrol, Ccleaner and about 20 other programs and don't work for any of them either.

Do "Malwarebytes, Winpatrol, Ccleaner and about 20 other programs" pay your expenses?

No, they aren't the ones that approached me.  None of that has a bearing.
You seem to forget, I'm also one of the people complaining about the problem of this topic.
I treat Avast and it's product exactly the same way I do any other program I use.
I say thanks for the good it does and complain when something isn't right.

[Simion]

There's a big difference between recommending a program I've used for the past 10 years and promoting a product.
I also recommend Malwarebytes, Winpatrol, Ccleaner and about 20 other programs and don't work for any of them either.

Do "Malwarebytes, Winpatrol, Ccleaner and about 20 other programs" pay your expenses?

No, they aren't the ones that approached me.  None of that has a bearing.
You seem to forget, I'm also one of the people complaining about the problem of this topic.
I treat Avast and it's product exactly the same way I do any other program I use.
I say thanks for the good it does and complain when something isn't right.

Quit convoluting the issue. You lied, I called you on it, and now you're dancing all over this page trying to squirm your way out of it, liar.

[bob3160]

I don't have anything to squirm about. You're the idiot by making this ridiculous post in the first place.

[Skakara]

Thanks for muddling the topic with OT. Bob, Simion is right, you've a serious conflict of interest if you take money from Avast. Simion, you could have been more courteous, and you should have taken the off-topic discussion to somewhere else (and kindly posted a single post here to inform the readers where you have more information about the issue).

Back to topic. The changed cookie I did "hack" yesterday only worked yesterday. Today it seems that the server side PHP session expired and I'm again seeing the redirecting after 1 hour.

Seriously, Avast, you should fix this. What if an user is writing a new post and the session/cookie expires while he/she is doing it and then he/she clicks the post button? Is the written message lost? I haven't got the time to start testing that too.. and besides, it's not needed to prove that this annoyance should be fixed.

[Skakara]

It's pretty much proven already that all users are affected by this in one or another way. Somebody refreshing a topic page after a while, other clicking the topic link in new post notification email or opening a bookmark link to a topic page, and so on.

[Simion]

You are right, Skakara. I sincerely apologize for hijacking your topic, and promise it won't happen again.

[bob3160]

Here's the email notification I received of a reply to this topic:



When I clicked on the link the first time, this is where it took me:



When I clicked on that same link a second time, this is where it took me:

[Skakara]

Thank you Bob for that excellent idea to show what this annoyance means with pictures!! I'm just used to post "steps to reproduce the problem" so I didn't think of it. Hopefully somebody at Avast notices this now.

For clarification: that same thing happens if I refresh a topic page after 1h inactivity. Or clicking a bookmark link to a topic page in browser. Others have the same problem when they refresh the "Show unread posts since last visit." page after some inactivity.

[bob3160]

Thank you Bob for that excellent idea to show what this annoyance means with pictures!! I'm just used to post "steps to reproduce the problem" so I didn't think of it. Hopefully somebody at Avast notices this now.

It would be nice since I posted this some time ago (right after the forum relaunched) in another section of this forum.

[!Donovan]

This behavior still exists.

So, is it intended?

~!Donovan

[Skakara]

Seriously, Avast, you should fix this. What if an user is writing a new post and the session/cookie expires while he/she is doing it and then he/she clicks the post button? Is the written message lost? I haven't got the time to start testing that too.. and besides, it's not needed to prove that this annoyance should be fixed.

Well, now it is tested, it just happened to me. I was writing a "quick reply" and pushed the "post" button -> I was redirected to the main page and when I went back to the topic (back in history) my text was gone from the "quick reply" box, and after a page refresh, the posting of the text didn't go through either. Very nice.

And avast doesn't care.. about this forum stupidity either, like they don't care about possible bug in their File System Shield. Avast doesn't really seem to care about anything anymore.. other than monetizing everything and bloating their product. Different AV tests show that avast is 2nd-class AV nowadays. Time to move on?