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Pretty sure there are specific timeouts for My Account items for increased security on that part. You have to prove you are who you are to, for instance, change your password or order or cancel a product or get access to identifiable information. It's fairly common or was fairly common, for certain things in various web platforms to allow you to use a lot of different functions and then have to prove you are who you are for things that need to be more secure. Also, pretty sure the site has been like that for a decade at least on purpose because of standards for credit cards and such. Personally identifiable information should be extremely secure on any site that takes credit cards.

Though if it logs you out, ie, going back to just the normal forums requires you to login, that might be a bug but it could also be increased security, ie, the authentication cookie is removed and reauthentication is required at that point, which would be an easy way of accomplishing that and adding security that says, if you can't login here, you shouldn't have access to anything else at this point either which I could see being reasonable.

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In his case, I would say confessed rather than admitted. He had a seemingly genuine mea culpa for what it's worth. But that's all kind of outside this specific issue.

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Realize that convention issues are more than just, "I didn't get to go." GenCon is a place where you can meet fans, talk with industry professionals that will help you develop your career, and team building among colleagues. Being effectively banned from professionally attending GenCon is detrimental to your career both in and out-of-house.

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I think one of Paizo's ongoing problems here is that this is just some of the stuff that's happened. They've crystalized around these couple of big things, but there's more and some of them are lesser but longer term. I know there are tales from certain former employees that probably won't see the light of day unless they do. There are other things out there that have the potential to come up and that's where the continuing problems will lay. There is potential for them to keep coming up and Paizo just be a consistent holding pattern so that the good they do is constantly chopped off at the knees by old patterns of abuse.

It's a problem.

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Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:
Wait, they are deleting Diego's posts?

Yes indeed. Well, at least his post in this thread. Not sure it's a unilateral thing. Probably well deserved snark at this statement.

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MadScientistWorking wrote:
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I quit.
Ok. I just wanted to make sure. Keeping track of everything going on is so rough. Im sorry you went through that. You struck me as a cool person a good artist assuming Im not confusing you for someone else.

Lu is the best. They're a go-getter too. Whoever hires/hired them will be lucky to have them.

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Totally Not Gorbacz wrote:
That fun moment when the company has no money to raise wages to a living standard but it has the money to hire Wolfram & Hart so that they can *checks press release* send e-mails asking former employees if they were mistreated.

Nice Angel reference.

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Yay... Transawareness week, where we all come out to help those that need it and for payment we get yelled at and our existence challenged. Followed immediately by the reading of the names of all of the trans women who were killed this year for being trans. woot

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Oooo no. Please don't tell me it involved the playtest. For the love of God don't tell me it involved the 2e playtest....

Oh this was a long time ago. Well before 2e. But to be fair, I would have taken a heavier hand. For better or for worse. We disagreed. It was fairly amicable. Chris and Sara did their best and we all appreciate that even if we disagreed on the extent to which the hand of moderation should be applied. But, it certainly wasn't pleasant in the years after to have to endure those comments anytime we included a queer NPC. Which we did often.

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You know how exhausting it is for people to constantly debate whether you should exist or not as a valid debate topic and when you point that out have your hands slapped away from the forum controls? Oh, yeah, I do. It's terribly exhausting. -_-

On a side note, maybe just listen to your trans-employees when they say they feel attacked and treat the topic as you would anyone actually attacking other employees. Just my two cents.

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Of course. People are not a monolith. Also, no one is hiring people just because they can diversify their board without expecting them to do the job. Well, I'm sure someone is, but no one here is asking for that and saying that is just a derailment tactic. People often do, however, hire people based on whether they can identify with them or not, which often translates to skin, gender, etc because they have similar experiences and thus have more in common. And when you get a board where all of the people making all the decisions for the company are white guys in their 40's and 50's, it's a problem. And ignoring that and putting your head in the ground, isn't going to help.

People of color, women, lgbtq people are often discriminated against, often unconsciously, often in little ways that reverberate in bigger ways throughout the organization. It takes a conscious effort to unbias yourself in hiring and managing your reports. It just does.

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Also, there is no best person for the job. You can't possibly know that. Usually, there are several good choices and you make the best one you can given the data and you can choose to get different voices in the board room or you can choose to go with the guy you want to have a beer with. That is a choice. We make those choices consciously or unconsciously. But the idea that there is one best choice and that guy happens to look just like everyone else in the board room is silly and unrealistic and we should be past that by now. Choose to have a new voice in the board room and I guarantee your choices get more informed.

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Diego Valdez wrote:
The other is about the leadership team. There IS a PoC who is highly qualified and frankly deserves the promotion on staff. The person currently running the tech team is a woman of color and has done wonders for the tech team and the company. Vic, the CTO, stepped back in the first half of 2020 and since then she has run the tech team. She was the tech team manager before that but since then has stepped up in that void. At the time I left in September there was no CTO in place and the plan was to hire a new CFO and that person was going to double as CTO. It's mind boggling to me that they were choosing to double up those roles rather than offer it to someone immensely qualified and competent. That even in looking to expand the leadership team they still didn't consider her is pretty telling.

This. I've heard nothing but good things about the manager who took over the team after I left. I wish I had gotten to meet her before I left but the toxicness of my relationship with the then manager was... epically bad. Paizo, as a company, would probably cease to exist in a meaningful way without them.

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I'm begging you guys to let Aaron vet your replies. He's actually got the best interests of the company at heart and he's really good at conveying complex situations, as is his job. Stop making it harder.

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Wooot! Congrats guys. Way to make history. I've started a Starfinder subscription!

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Yup. Picked up a scoop neck shirt and a mug as well. Management email will go out tomorrow. I need to think on it.

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Also, I'd like to say, as long as I'm posting to the forums today.

Way to freaking go all! You did the hard thing and have at least partially pulled it off! It's a great day for Paizo. Finally, employees will have some say and real way to air grievances and work with management to solve the hard problems.

I've bought a shirt and a mug and hope for the best for the Golems.

Bread for all, and roses too!

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thunderspirit wrote:


This is reasonable; if we take Aaron's statement that the Paizo headcount is under 80 at face value, then there aren't yet enough signatories to constitute 50% +1 of the workplace.

There are a lot of managers at Paizo. And, as has been mentioned elsewhere, not everybody was comfortable with their name on the internet.

Jessica's Tweet

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I guess I'm out, y'all. Lovely to see you all again, but the forums are as hostile a place as ever... Here's to Golarion, though!

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Ah I've seen erik's posts about GenCon. I'm glad they didn't force people to go this year. Not loving what I'm seeing on the floor from a few pictures and I hope the ones that did go stay safe. ConCrud is going to be a helluva thing this year.

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I'm not sure what it's like now, but those two being gone would have meant about half of the CS staff. The thread lock and banhammer buttons were ever coveted only a few people had them and even less were allowed to use them. And GenCon is going on. Not sure what's happening there but the way the registers tie in to Paizo was something they had to be on the ball for, especially for big release stuff. I imagine that CS is busy and there is less staff attached to computers now than there usually are.

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That moment you see a dot on a post in a forum you haven't posted on in 3 years and wonder wtf?

And yeah, Sara Marie, she was the best at what she did. I didn't always agree with her decisions on the forums but it came from a good place. Diego is one of the best men I've ever known. That one hurt.

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Yeah I mean, I too shall stop by and say hello. Nice to see the FAWTL thread is still going and as random as ever. ^_^ I love you all. Never change. At least not this.

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Also Second Seekers

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The setting is what makes Pathfinder great. Rules are rules. Some people will like them, others will find ways to do their own thing: house rules, 3rd party publishers, whatever. You can pick and choose the rules all you want. They are really selling you Golarion or the-mystery-of-what-happened-to-space-golarion. It's in the pathfinder/starfinder society. It's in all the books after the rules. It's in everything they produce because that's what's important. Rules are rules, but Golarion is the magic that binds it all together, this world built by a 100 authors and everyone who plays and reads all the flavor text.

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Sara Marie was always an advocate for her people. She stood up for their needs and made sure they got as much as she could for her team. Something that makes a great manager. I think she was easily one of the hardest workers there.

Diego is a f~!#ing lion with the heart of a colossus.

Paizo will be diminished without them there.

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Also, I'd like to point out, sometimes things happen. Sometimes hardware goes bad. Sometimes something unexpected happens. They work really hard and they do good work. Maybe don't assume the worst.

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yay! Congrats guys!

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Whitneys got this and really this crystals moment. ;)

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Mike Welham wrote:
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You (and Lissa) will be missed here at Paizo. But I know we haven't heard the last of either of you. Godspeed.
Wait, Lissa is moving on too?! Noooo!

I think Lissa had already moved on. :(

Narator Voice: She had.

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It would help a whole lot if we could get an actual page you are seeing this on and what version of any browser you are using.

Thanks

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Can you be a bit more specific as to what pages you are seeing those on, it will greatly help us narrow down where to find the problem. Thank you.

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Thanks. That helps a lot.

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If you could give us a little more detail on what terms and category you are seeing weirdness in, that would help a lot. Some of this MIGHT have been fixed with a recent issue fix today.

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The issues with avatars and aliases sometimes not showing up ahould be fixed. Thanks for your patience.

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This should be fixed. Please let us know if you see the issue again.

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TheAlicornSage wrote:

My aliases are gone from my profile.

Clicked: My Account -> My Profile
Showed my main profile with all the tabs
Clicked: Aliases
Got two headers, organized play and regukar (paraphrased)

But both caregories were empty. I tried tapping, but nothing happened. (please don't make me tap).

We've done some troubleshooting on this and have narrowed it down quite a bit but still haven't found the particulars. I'll spend a good amount of time tomorrow trying to figure it out. This is likely related to the same thing that's happening occasionally with avatars. With aliases if you reload the page once or twice, it should show up. With avatars, you'll have to go back and click the button again.

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UnArcaneElection wrote:

Not sure if this is related (maybe some kind of timeout issue?), but attempts to log in sometimes fail with no error message (doesn't say incorrect user name or password -- just goes back to the home page almost as if it had worked, except that I am still Guest).

Can you start a different thread for that. It's a completely different thing.

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They have a thing that automates that part. We have stuff in place to catch them but it's not perfect. Nothing really is, so some accounts slip through. They often end up eventually telling on themselves but not always.

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We have some speed improvements that will probably be coming sooner rather than later but not this week. When we have a lot of spammers, they end up using a lot of resources, often quite a lot because they are automating a lot of stuff. That's largely what happens during the weekend when things get slow.

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Dear Paizo,

Thanks so much for the shifter update. I have faith in you!

What would it take to get a Corgi Aspect added to the list, even as just a blog post?

Thanks!

Faerie Mount / Corgi

The aspect of the faerie mount invokes a magical corgi from the First World (see Adventure Path #119: Prisoner of the Blight for more details), renowned for their loyalty and bravery. Those who take this aspect have the power of Calamity at their fingertips.

Minor Form: You gain a +4 competence bonus on saves against fear. At 8th level, this bonus increases to +6, and at 15th level, it increases to +8.

Major Form: Your shape changes to that of a fey mount (Prisoner of the Blight). While in this form, you gain low-light vision, scent, a 40-foot base land speed, and a bite attack (1d6 damage), and you gain a +4 racial bonus to CMD against bull rush and trip. At 8th level, you gain Nimble Moves as a bonus feat as long as you are carrying no more than a light load, and you gain a +4 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking with scent. At 15th level, you gain Improved Natural Attack (bite) and your critical multiplier with your bite attack increases by 1, to a maximum of x4.

... As the owner of at least one Calamity, I'd have to say that I'd give Alertness and a further bonus to intiative rather than scent. Corgi's have far better hearing than many dogs and their sniffer, while still pretty good, isn't as great as many other dogs. Also, some sort of squeeze ability would not be out of the ordinary. Our dog loves to squeeze into the weirdest lowest places. She'd hide under the couch if there were more than 3 inches to do it in.

Thumbs up. =)

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We take security pretty seriously here but a lot of our site is public and searchable. When you are viewing things that basically everyone can see we don't use https. Encryption used to take up a significant portion of the CPU and while that's no longer the case, really, we have a lot of legacy code to go through and change all that. Currently, when you go to My Downloads or sign in or are checking out, all of that goes through SSL(TLSv1.2 technically). So that information is safe.

Thanks for letting us know, though.

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No I had to turn them off for a little while. May have to turn it off again for a little bit today. We'll see.

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We're rolling software and it should be an intermediate error. It should be fixed now. I'm going to edit that out. Let me know if you see it again.

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That was my fault. It should be far more stable now.

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Hmmm. That may be. It might be timing out on the php for some reason. Can you send me a URL in a private message and I'll have it looked at.

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If it makes you feel better, we're seeing a similar post frequency and traffic on our end. We also had a humble bundle that brought a few people in and might have had an uptick. Might be that conversations are a little more spread out with Starfinder be added. Could be a lot of different reasons it feels different but cursory glances show posts about once a minute-ish with PBP coming in around 2 to 3 per minute.

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Well, that's the thing. I use firefox myself and am not seeing anything like that. I'll look further into it and see if I can see a reason.

Edit: OK. So I don't see any evidence of one of the things that might be. I want to ask for some more information. Are you possibly coming in on a proxy that you wouldn't be coming in on with chrome. Do you have any plugins enabled? Antivirus? Is Javascript disabled(though I don't know that that would cause the problem you are describing. Can you give it a go again and if you see that same pattern, please check your ip with something like https://www.whatismyip.com/ and can you PM that to me? Please don't include it in the post. Also, the rough time you tried it should help me immensely.

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Morgan Champion wrote:
Guy Humual wrote:
Not sure if any of this is related but the hyper links to access "Sign in", "My Account", and "Shopping Cart" aren't active on Firefox, the "Help/FAQ" is working though. Those links are working on Google Chrome, which is how I was able to log in and report this.
I have the same problem with Firefox. Incidentally those links are working on Pale Moon 27.0.6, which is what I'm currently using.

Check to make sure that you aren't coming in via an rss/atom link.

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