Quote Originally Posted by Manga Shoggoth View Post
Your "connection" is stored as a cookie, so anything that affects cookies can do this. So:

  • Make sure that your browser is set to allow cookies for this site (per Fri's comment).
  • Make sure you don't have any processes going around tidying up cookies. Several security programs will do this kind of thing.
  • Take care clearing your browser cache (this will also remove cookies)
  • If you are running any kind of script blocker (like noscript) make sure that you have the correct sites unblocked.


If you have only just started getting this behaviour, try to find out what has changed: it is possible that a change to - say - script blocking is now affecting cookies.
Yeah, cookies seem to be it. However, cookies used to be blocked with no problem before.