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I use a different password on every account I use. I use a password manager (Roboform) to keep track of them. It generates a very complicates password, like "JS4oFS0^9J@m[9h!nfCw" that I then do not have to remember. It also keeps track of the login page. All I have to do it select the account and Roboform goes to that page, fills in the user name and password, and logs me in.

This is not working very well here because there is no fixed login address (URL). The software apparently generates a unique URL for each login. Here are the last 3 I got:
Roboform remember the last one, but that fails the next time.

I follow dozens of discussion forums and have dozens more accounts with various merchants. None of them do this. Is there a reason it is done this way here?
 
I don’t experience this. My password for the forum is stored on my iPad and phone and I just get logged in automatically.
 
I don’t experience this. My password for the forum is stored on my iPad and phone and I just get logged in automatically.
Yeah it only does it on the login page which you are skipping by getting your browser to remember your login :)

I follow dozens of discussion forums and have dozens more accounts with various merchants. None of them do this. Is there a reason it is done this way here?
<warning : geek speak incoming >
I suspect (I don't work there so am making an educated guess here) it's how their authentication works for the site, the long selection of characters and numbers I think is an encrypted id telling the server which application you are signing into (as I think they have more than just the forums to sign into on their servers), the encryption looks to be using a different seed each time meaning that the encrypted id is different every time thus making the login address slightly different each time.

Personally since there isn't really any personal data of mine (not that can't be gained from elsewhere anyway) of the site I just get it to keep em signed in :)
 
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