Difficulty staying logged in?

I wasn't sure where else to post this.

Since I have been back, I've had difficulty staying logged in. Now, I know the first question will be, "Do you have 'stayed logged in' selected" and the answer is no, I don't. I will explain my reasoning for that in a moment.

My issue is not staying logged in over a long period of inactive time. My issue is staying logged in the first few minutes I'm on the site. It hasn't happened every time, but probably about 60% of the time I've been back.


So my experience so far as has been this:

--log in

-see I have new alerts

--click alert

--oops you have to be logged in to do that.



I am also logging in and trying to click on alerts from a newly opened tab without previous (or additional) SA tabs open. I use an up to date version of chrome on a windows computer.


This situation will often happen about 2-3 times in a row before I'm finally logged in for good (relatively speaking).


At this point, I'm reluctant to keep "stay logged in" as an option due to issues I've had with it in the past where I'm unable to log in if I logged in on another device (ie work computer) and did not manually log out.

Is this the only thing that will fix this situation? Is there something else I could try to get this to stop?

No, I do not receive an error message if I am logged in on another device and try to log in here (Error messages would make things easier, actually, because then I would have something to copy/paste or screenshot instead of vague 'no it just...doesn't work.)

If I'm logged in on another device and try to log in, it's not uncommon that I experience difficulties where it will tell me my password is incorrect or just redirect me to the main page without actually logging me in. It did this last Tuesday (1/24) and I had issues with it in the past.

For now I guess the only option I have is to just set an alarm while I'm on SA reminding me to manually log out then, but I wish I knew why it keeps logging me out otherwise.

Thank you for the help~

I've sent screenshots of this off-SA, but I figured I'd update this thread.

The problem became less frequent for about two weeks, but it's back to being a huge pain in the ass again. I haven't been logged in since Sunday, but it's only two days later, so it's not like I was gone for weeks.

It logged me out three times, two of which where when i went to click alerts, the third was when I went to respond to a post in the community lounge. I thought it was odd that it was taking way longer to post than usual---I went and hit the post button twice thinking maybe I didn't press it the first time-- but finally I got a "you must be logged in to do that" prompt.