Not had any problem using either Chrome, Edge or Firefox and on different computers. Have you got a bit of malware in there somewhere trying to suck up credentials for nefarious reasons?

Martin C

Like Martin, I don’t get the squares come up and I rarely even have to log in with just the tick be that on my PC or phone. And I never log out.

With the amount of computer issues you seem to have Nigel, I wonder if it is the site that has the problem.

Sounds more like a settings or software issue at your end, Nigel – as others, I can’t remember the last time I was ‘challenged’ at the doors of this forum, usually I’m signed in on PC and ‘phone, and I never log-out – occasionally, my phone will ‘drop me out’ but it’s become increasingly rare.

My settings are to accept and retain cookies for this site – dependent on your settings and browser, you may instead need to exempt them from deletion on closing.

Log in went uncharacteristically smoothly for me just now.

I have to agree with Nigel that log in is usually awful.

Clicking the first time in the email address box nearly always takes me to Facebook (I don’t have a Facebook account) for some reason. I come back, fill in email and password, and nearly always I’m unable to put a tick in the small box in order to proceed to forum access.

Trying to proceed without putting a tick in the box just results in a failed log in and the whole process of entering email and password has to start again.

I don’t always get the Captcha screens but definitely do sometimes and they’re usually dreadfully fuzzy images. Worse than this is the number of times they can reappear and the fact that their logic is flawed:if you’re asked to tick all boxes with a traffic light, for example, the Captcha rule seems to except any pictures with only a peripheral part of the traffic light showing in the picture, so you’re left performing a guessing game as to whether it counts that small bit of the lampshade as a traffic light or not.

It’s the only forum I log into nowadays, but yes, log in is worse than any other forum I’ve used.

Well that was annoying; I typed a reply, and before I submitted it, the screen refreshed and I lost the lot, but remained logged in.

I rarely have to re-log in to the site, which is mainly accessed via Opera on a Windows PC.
On those few occasions, it’s normally after I have accessed the site via a different browser or PC.
I rarely log on via a mobile.

My browser is set to allow cookies, and not to delete them on exit, and login set to Remember Me; password also retained by Google, so re-login is painless anyway.
Opera’s Adblocker set to “Allow Acceptable Ads”, but trackers are blocked.

I hardly ever get the picture boxes.

Bill

On 29 November 2025 at 16:29 Nicholas Farr Said:

Hi Bill, if you scroll the log in page up to high, the email box clashes with the Facebook and Tweeter symbols, which are actually invisible, but you can spot them if you have filled in the box, and then scroll the page up. I’ve had that a few times in the past, and so I don’t scroll the page up until the box comes into view, put my email into it, and then scroll up enough to put my password in the second box.

I don’t always get the picture boxes, but when I do, it’s more often than not that they are a pain in the unmentionable.

Regards Nick.

Thanks for the tip, Nick. That helps somewhat, but I’ve just had to log in twice because the small black box you have to tick wouldn’t accept a tick the first time round.

Two sets of reCaptcha boxes also appeared at the second log in, and, just as on previous occasions, after being asked to tick all boxes with a bicycle in them and ticking boxes that unmistakably did have a portion of a bicycle in them I was still not allowed to log in until I had completed a further reCaptcha window.

Seems I was relatively lucky not to have to complete 6 windows like Nigel had to.

No problems here on a bog standard macbook