Remember me on login
I frequently need to login to the mountaineers website, sometimes multiple times per day which is a bit annoying. It would be great to have a remember me checkbox to persist the login.
It appears this was a feature until 2023 https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/15859615-remember-me-function-on-log-in-page-is-broken-gh20
And a 2024 post was declined without reasoning https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/47641436-keep-me-logged-in
It would be great if an explanation could be given on why this isn't possible, or options for how some login persisting could be supported.
Jacob Ward
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Hello Jacob -
Thank you for reaching out! I am happy to provide the historical context that I found and a proposal for next steps. The "logged in" feature was a built-in feature of the platform our website is built on. When we upgraded our platform late 2023/early 2024 it was removed because the latest version of the platform no longer stored these credentials for security reasons. The ticket that was closed, mentioned a session being active for a period of time, but I believe that only works if the window/tab is not closed. That idea was closed by me in July as part of a clean-up process and I appreciate that the lack of description as to why it was closed was missing. I have worked to provide more details to members since then when closing/completing ideas.
As for next steps, I have a monthly meeting with our external developers who can provide more detail on this and either suggest options or further explain the decision not to pursue re-adding this feature. I can reply back with more information early July!
Devin Lampe
