Idly complaining since I do not feel like e-mailing. One hint first--I notice a few people complaining it taking a long while for posts to appear which is not entirely accurate. There IS a two-or-so minute turnaround serverside at worst (for me anyway) but at that point you are also hitting any number of caches and proxies. I am not sure whether IE offers a similar option but Firefox (which I heartily recommend for everyone) uses Shift-Ctrl-R for "force reload" which should ignore any cached content. Unless connecting through a heavily caching (usually internal) network, you should be able to get through by hitting Ctrl-R a couple times too. The browser settings also usually allow clearing expirys and caches. So anyway.

Oh, second tip but you probably already knew--always always copy your post to clipboard before hitting submit. IE is particularly bad about losing your message if something fails otherwise.

1. Looks like TPM/E and TPM/C set their cookies to expire with session (this means when you close *all* instances of your browser) but the servers are expiring these for some reason, I estimate around 10 minutes. Expiry is based on posting, also, not on activity so just reading stuff and going through links will not increase the lifetime.

2. The re-login at the comment field does not work. I originally registered at TPM/C side but regardless of where the re-login appears, it always fails.

3. The 'welcome' bar is inconsistent. Quite a few times it still shows me logged in even though I get the re-login box trying to post.

4. Logging in on TPM main site works about 1/3 the time. I am at the point that wherever I need to (re-) log in, I first click on TPM/E at the very top, wait for the page to load and then RE-load the page, after which I can click Logout. Logging in at the screen Logout takes me works about 1/4 the time, so I always click on TPM/E once more (and re-reload it once more) and then log in at the welcome bar. This is unacceptably convoluted--and please rest assured, this is the only way that consistently works.