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Just a guess but I think that cookie notice at the bottom may provide the explanation. Without accepting cookies it can't keep you logged in. The active user has changed requiring the page to be reloaded and the cookies re-set, meaning you probably had different tabs under different sessions and it was confusing the forum. I feel like reloading the page like it said would fix this in almost all cases.
My login problems continue. This time I made sure to agree to the cookies first.
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Despite agreeing to cookies it still doesn’t display me as logged in, but won’t let me log in.
New symptom, probably the same issue. Telling me to reload because the active user changed.