Hi everyone!

The site is running “at risk” over the next few days as we roll out https: everywhere. This will provide better security for you as you view, and is being done as part of fixing the double-login issue as well. You might find some odd behaviour as I roll out the changes and test on live; I’ve done what I can to test on my home system but there’s ALWAYS something that crops up when you get it onto the live site 🙂

We should be done by the weekend if all goes well.

You can test it by accessing the site via
https://www.restrainedelegance.com
Please let me know if you see any issues. We will be switching to that as the default shortly.

Cheers, Hywel

1st April 2021 is a very special date – it’s the 20th birthday of Restrained Elegance! Check out some previews of what we have coming up for you to celebrate!

And celebrating all those years in the members’ archive, here are just some of the favourite sets that will be back for you top enjoy:

Many thanks to a very smart member who has hopefully identified the source of the double-login prompts some people experience when logging into the site. It looks like it is to do with the fact that the site handles requests to both restrainedelegance.com and www.restrainedelegance.com. It definitely looks like this can cause the issue, and it may be that changes rolled out to browsers might have made them more strict about whether the login cookie was for one or the other of these. I’ve asked tech support to check through and implement redirects which should hopefully fix the issue.

Sorry it has taken so long to figure it out – there wasn’t a lot I could do given that I couldn’t reproduce the error myself. And many thanks to the clever member for tracking it down! Hopefully that’s all it was, because if so the fix should be pretty simple to implement.

Cheers, Hywel

Hello!

Time for some previews of whats coming your way in March. Remember you can download and keep all of these as part of your Restrained Elegance membership!

And a few of the sets coming back in the members’ archive next month:

Hi Everyone,

Thank you everyone who has reported login issues to me. The main common factors seem to be timescale (it seems to have started around end of October or beginning of November) and OS (one or two people on Mac OS or iOS seem to have had one-off problems but the persistent problems seem to be under Windows).

I’m afraid I am baffled as to what is going on, but am following up with tech support. If ever you cannot get into the site please email me and I will do my best to assist.

Apologies again for the inconvenience. This one is a real puzzle, and only seems to be affecting a few percent of people which makes it hard to pin down.

Hywel