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  • 1.  logging into the ASA website is clumsy

    Posted 02-03-2026 13:59

    Does anyone else have trouble logging into the ASA website, either to participate in Community discussions (like this one) or to access the journals that we supposedly can access?

    When I try to access Significance magazine, for instance, I get stuck in an infinite loop. I am repeatedly asked for username and password but can never get to any articles.

    For Community discussions, it seems I have to login twice, with the exact same credentials: once for the ASA website in general, and then again for Community.

    Frustrating.



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    Christopher Ryan
    Agency Statistical Consulting, LLC
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  • 2.  RE: logging into the ASA website is clumsy

    Posted 02-04-2026 06:50

    I experience some of the same challenges you have identified. I have never been able to access the Significance magazine online - I now wait for the print copy to arrive. 



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    Nidhi Tandon
    Biostatistician
    University of Pennsylvania
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  • 3.  RE: logging into the ASA website is clumsy

    Posted 02-04-2026 06:56
    Edited by Christian Graf 02-04-2026 09:49

    Yes ... it is ... clumsy ... and not intuitive ...

    Here is one way that works for me (with Google Chrome):

    1. Make sure your browser is not running in private mode.
    2. Login and make sure that you are on https://amstat.users.membersuite.com/home (you can get there via menue membership -> members only)
    3. Go to menue Subscriptions -> Significance Access
    4. Access significance via the button 'Access Significance' (I usually use right mouse and open Significance in a seperate tab, in case something goes wrong)

    If you are an ASA member, that approach should work.

    I hope it helps & best of luck,
    Chris



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    Christian Alexander Graf
    Dipl.-Math.
    Qualitaetssicherung & Statistik

    "To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of."

    Ronald Fisher in 'Presidential Address by Professor R. A. Fisher, Sc.D., F.R.S. Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics (1933-1960), Vol. 4, No. 1 (1938), pp. 14-17'
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  • 4.  RE: logging into the ASA website is clumsy

    Posted 02-04-2026 09:36

    I agree.  It's particularly frustrating to get an ASA email with a link of interest and then having to log into and negotiate the ASA webpage just to be able to open and read the message they already emailed me.



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    Milton Loyer
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  • 5.  RE: logging into the ASA website is clumsy

    Posted 02-04-2026 12:19

    I thought it was just me, but I find navigating the ASA website to be clumsy. It took me 20 minutes just to figure out how to respond to Christorper Ryan's post.



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    James Higgins
    Kansas State University
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  • 6.  RE: logging into the ASA website is clumsy

    Posted 02-04-2026 20:59

    Yes, I've noticed the same or similar behavior, though I think I've always eventually been able to get to the resource I'm trying to locate. It's definitely frustrating to have to log in again when the system clearly knows I'm already logged in.



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    David Nichols
    Lead Statistician, Research Computing & Data Services
    Northwestern University IT
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  • 7.  RE: logging into the ASA website is clumsy

    Posted 02-05-2026 10:38

    Colleagues,

    We're hearing you on the website access challenges. It is frustrating when you cannot get to what you need. Browser differences, security settings, and other configurations all interact in ways that make issues genuinely complicated. Trust me our frustration level matches yours because we want to make it easy, not create barriers.

    We are looking at where people are hitting roadblocks to see where we can reduce friction points. For now, this short video shows how to access the subscriptions and the community (https://somup.com/cOnhIgWiFA)

    We're committed to making access straightforward because the professional development opportunities, connections with colleagues, and research behind login are what matter.

    Please reach out to me, and we will work to find solutions.



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    Donna LaLonde
    Pronouns: she, her, hers
    Associate Executive Director
    American Statistical Association
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  • 8.  RE: logging into the ASA website is clumsy

    Posted 02-11-2026 09:29

    It is entirely possible, and should be the standard, to code a website to work with any browser.

    If what we need is an email discussion board/online forum, there are other platforms that do that very well and very smoothly. 



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    Christopher Ryan
    Agency Statistical Consulting, LLC
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