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This annoys me a little but I am not sure if its by design of a "feature". Maybe its browser specific. Anyway, say I am looking at a post and I am not logged in. I then decied to reply to a post and I am prompted to login. Once I log in I would expect to be directed to the Reply page form. Instead, no matter where I am in the forum I am redirected to the Home Page. A little bit annoying if you are a page or two into a forum.

This is a shortcoming that I have only experienced twice (since I moved to using firefox, and each time after a FF upgrade) as I usually get logged in automatically (the remember me checkbox, although some people have recently reported different bahaviour).

It's certainly not by design, but it is a by-product of the fact that the main site -- through which you sign in -- and the forum are actually two different sites/applications. There is a bridge that means when you sign up for one, you sign up for the other, and likewise when you log in via the main part, it passes on this fact to the forum. The problem is that this is about as much as either knows about the other, so if you get asked to log in, the main part of the site (Joomla-based CMS) does now know that you came from the forum part, so it dumps you back on the main page. Unfortunately nothing can be done about this at the current versions.

I have been planning an upgrade for almost a year now that would see us using a new version of Joomla and phpBB (the forum) but have been waiting for a tool that would join the two together in a better way. In fact, there isn't a stable version of anything out for the versions I want to upgrade to, but it's on the horizon. In short, I hope that this new way of doing things will be smarter. Till then , we have to live the the vagaries, I mean features! of the current system <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

The workaround is to either make the site/browser remember you so you get signed in automatically, or make sure you log in straight away. Sorry.