| Hey everyone! I wanted to make a few announcements before we push an update within the next hour or two. First, the long-standing cookie/IP/logout issues is finally being kicked to the curb. No longer will be you logged out when your IP address changes! In order for this fix to run, the update will automatically logout all users one last time. So you'll need log back in, but your sessions should now persist even if your IP changes. I know this fix has been long wanted, and I'm excited we're finally able to deliver it! For the second announcement, we're deploying registration and login improvements. Once this update goes live, you'll be able to login and register through Facebook, Google and Twitter. This change will allow users to sign up easily, and not worry about passwords or remembering their usernames across multiple websites. It will also allow existing members to link their Facebook, Google or Twitter accounts to their MAL account and then proceed to login using the social media sign-on. Finally, we're looking at updating older areas of our site - and the first corner we're planning on tackling is the user profile page. If you have any constructive suggestions or ideas on how to make the page more engaging, informative, or just better in general, please head on over to this thread and post a comment! To link your account Hover your username in the top right corner and choose "Settings". Alternatively, Edit Profile > Account Settings. This is also the new page for changing your email, username and password. Update May 8 You may be logged out after a period of inactivity (roughly 20-30 minutes). Seems a bug still needs to be squashed. They're working on it and will let us know as soon as it's fixed, but it may take a day or two. Please bear with us for now and we'll let you know when it's fixed. Update May 11 A fix should be pushed within the next two hours which will hopefully address the inactivity issues. At this time, you will be logged out for what is hopefully a final time. Please let us know if you encounter any remaining issues 2-3 hours after this edit. Update May 14 There was one mass logout for everyone today and there will be another next week or the week after. Just a bit of tweaking, so nothing to be worried about. |
KinetaMay 14, 2015 1:21 PM
| Awesome, MAL has been improving a lot lately :) |
| Wow, good news. At long last, RIP cookies log out. |
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| Never had the IP logout issue, but yay for those that did. I guess the social media integration is nice, but thankfully it's also not required. I'll never touch Facebook. |
| FUCKING FINALLY |
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| Please remove show password check box form login screen. |
| (•_•) DEAL ( •_•)>⌐■-■ WITH IT(⌐■_■) YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH |
| MAL has been constantly improving recently, really thanks for all the efforts! And the IP problem will definitely be an amazing thing for users with dynamic ip address like me :D |
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Andruha said: Why? That's not really detrimental to you—unless somehow someone randomly gets access to your computer and clicks it and or your friend does. I guess that would be the only downside.Please remove show password check box form login screen. |
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j0x said: Sadly, almost all spambots actually have known email addresses.what about registering ONLY with known emails and social media websites? that will make it harder for spam bots to register that quickly here, the spam bots are pain in the ass in the forums Andruha said: It's actually just as easy to get your saved passwords out of your browser without the check box as it is with. The reason password boxes show **** is so people behind you can't see you typing your password, not because it isn't possible to get this information back out.Please remove show password check box form login screen. |
Ando- said: Awesome, MAL has been improving a lot lately :) I think they finally got a good back end developer who knows more than HTML, CSS & javascript :P |
| Possibly related: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=613857 |
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Serhiyko said: It is related, along with a bunch of other threads on this topic. I'm not sure why you're linking it here?Possibly related: http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=613857 |
| Good work :) |
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| YAY!!!! Xinil said: For the second announcement, we're deploying registration and login improvements. Once this update goes live, you'll be able to login and register through Facebook, Google and Twitter. This change will allow users to sign up easily, and not worry about passwords or remembering their usernames across multiple websites. It will also allow existing members to link their Facebook, Google or Twitter accounts to their MAL account and then proceed to login using the social media sign-on. quick question on the bold, will doing this make MAL post stuff on my newsfeed or nah? Cause I'd rather not |
Silence_SuzukaMay 8, 2015 12:53 AM
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JOAOAA said: When you try to link it, it will say what it will be able to do. I'm pretty sure it didn't say it would post (Already linked my shit). You'd need to check though.YAY!!!! Xinil said: For the second announcement, we're deploying registration and login improvements. Once this update goes live, you'll be able to login and register through Facebook, Google and Twitter. This change will allow users to sign up easily, and not worry about passwords or remembering their usernames across multiple websites. It will also allow existing members to link their Facebook, Google or Twitter accounts to their MAL account and then proceed to login using the social media sign-on. quick question on the bold, will doing this make MAL post stuff on my newsfeed or nah? Cause I'd rather not |
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| MAL is now improving, Great work!! RIP cookies logout,I've been waited for this to be fixed |
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Tyrel said: When you try to link it, it will say what it will be able to do. I'm pretty sure it didn't say it would post (Already linked my shit). You'd need to check though. .......where do I go to link? |
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JOAOAA said: Edit my profile -> Account settings -> Bottom partTyrel said: When you try to link it, it will say what it will be able to do. I'm pretty sure it didn't say it would post (Already linked my shit). You'd need to check though. .......where do I go to link? |
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| Wow, I never expected this. MAL has been improving in the last few months, good news everywhere. |
"You either die an Ashita no Joe, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Naruto."  |
Tyrel said: JOAOAA said: Edit my profile -> Account settings -> Bottom part.......where do I go to link? got it, adblock wasn't showing it before so I had to disable it ty |
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| I am really glad with this update. I dont know there was a time where I was loggged out within 30 mins of logging in >.< Also I have filled captchas approx 20 times since I joined the site. I appreciate the developers and the team. |
 I don't know why people write that they are approachable persons, if you were you wouldn't be on MAL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended families or lovers on MAL are a farce. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Thank you |
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| Yessssssssssssssssssssss I've had this problem for months and now it's fixed! |
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| Nice, let's wait and see whether it'll work. |
| Loving this new MAL. You guys are doing a great job!! :) |
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| Finally! Thanks for the hard work. |
| awesome, thanks! |
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| Finally! Great work!! |
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| I'd love to see more being done to link MAL to social networking. |
hover your username in the top right corner and choose "Settings". Alternatively, Edit Profile > Account Settings. This is also the new page for changing your email, username and password. Will that be redundant? To have two ways for going to settings, profile, and logout? Will we have a choice to choose which one (if we preferred either way) and hide another one? (I get confused when having two things that has the same functions) |
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| Is this maintenance still going? Because I've been logged off 4 times in the last 3 hours, like it always have been. |
| Maybe you should change "Setting" to "Settings"? Not sure if it's just me. ^^ hehe |
| Good job Xinil and the rest of the MAL team! Amazing news! |
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| this is actualy quite good, 10 out of 10 improvment |
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Kineta said: It is related, along with a bunch of other threads on this topic. I know, but I thought only the last topic should suffice Kineta said: I'm not sure why you're linking it here? Because no one else bothered to do it |
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| That's good to hear :) |
| This is awesome news! Thanks to those who fixed this :D |
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| Glad that changes are coming to mal, don't have any specific to suggest for user profile currently but I think maybe some voting system for new features / proposing changes would be nice. Also maybe some sort of issue tracker with a bit more functionality than just forum posts in 'technical' section but things like this are actually very rarely done for websites so maybe it's not that necessary. |
| But if the arrow is straight And the point is slick It can pierce through dust No matter how thick... |
Cuckold said: My account has been logged out twice in the last two hours. The last one happening just now. Same, before that I had never been logged out. |
| WOW!!!! Amazing work guys!!!! You guys are doing a great job with the recent updates! |
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| Not a big fan of the FB/Twitter/G+ registration option, but I'm glad that you're trying to fix the log in problem |
 Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| MAL Creative > WWE Creative Makes me wonder what did Crave actually do? Eat donuts all day while they sat down and were on Facebook all day laughing at the complaints users had. |
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| Always getting logged out every 2-3 hours. Even in the same IP. Damn it. |
| Haters always gonna hate. |
| We're aware that some users are getting logged out since the recent change, many of which didn't have problems before. It's being looked into and will be fixed as soon as possible. Please hold tight with us for a bit and we apologise for the inconvenience! |
Chierii said: That post was actually made by a kitty in disguise. Shhhh.and I thought Xinil was retiring... |
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