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Further response (posted 14/9): https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6636878#post6636878

Some answers to questions posed in the thread:

“The launcher forgets my accounts if I leave it open for too long”
If you are logged in and subsequently enable a VPN connection, the SSO iframe fails and then forgets your accounts. We believe there may also be an issue with time passing or network connectivity loss that we are trying to narrow down to root cause(s).
In the past we have forced the launcher to forget all accounts, for security reasons (and one deployment error). These purges occurred on: 25/11/15, 26/1/16, 8/2/16 and 20/6/16.

“The launcher doesn’t expire logins/refresh tokens”
Accounts management now contains the functionality to delete all SSO tokens - located at https://secure.eveonline.com/LoginHistory.aspx
Changing password manually via account management also automatically does this
The Password Recovery process doesn’t currently have this functionality, but it’s in active development and we aim to deploy it by the end of this week (EDIT: THIS HAS NOW BEEN DEPLOYED)

“The exefile lets me manage my settings profiles and the launcher doesn’t”
The cogwheel next to your account names in launcher login allows you to map separate settings profiles to individual (or multiple) accounts. When/if your accounts are purged from the launcher, these settings profiles are retained on your machine but will need to be remapped to the relevant account once the account has been revalidated in the launcher.

“I use ISBoxer to launch many clients and manage their window positions, especially with borderless windows” / “The Mumble overlay doesn’t work in Windows 10 unless you use exefile”
While ISBoxer and Mumble are unsupported 3rd party software from our perspective, we have reports from players that ISBoxer does also work using the launcher rather than the exefile directly. If there are concerns about 3rd party software functionality or performance with the new system we advise you to raise these concerns with the developers of the software, as is standard practice with all 3rd party software.

“Will third party launchers such as Rapid Light EVE Launcher continue to work?”
While 3rd party launchers may continue to function, we do not support or advocate their use

“The Launcher is vulnerable to DDOS whereas exefile is more resilient”
While the old launcher was subject to load issues and network problems, due to it being hosted in London as a dynamic ASP.NET website, the new launcher website is statically hosted on Amazon S3, with Amazon CloudFront in the front, which should offer additional protection against DDoS attacks.

“Will the old launcher continue to work?”
The old launcher is currently unsupported and will stop working at some point in the near/medium future without any further warning.

“The launcher complains about access rights to its own installation folder”
We believe that most cases can be fixed by running the 'Fix permissions..' in the Shared Cache Settings menu.
However, we have seen at least one case where we have been unable to figure out what is wrong, but in that case the user could not create files/folders manually. So in that case, at least, there is a system level problem. Investigations continue so if this issue occurs for you, and Fix Permissions doesn't solve your problem, please file a bug report with as much detail about your system configuration as you can provide.

“The new launcher throws up certificate issues”
We have an open defect for various certificate issues and hope to roll out a fix soon, but many certificate issues have already been addressed.

Since the launcher is functional now I can't object to this. Please though, for future reference, keep in mind that if you are looking at making major changes to how the launcher works you need to keep it at it's current level of functionality.

Logging in to Eve using the old method, configuring multiple accounts to get set up, etc. etc. was just enough of a chore to stop me playing sometimes if the kid had really run me ragged. Yes, really. The current launcher makes it very easy, and I like that, so don't break it.

More nails in the coffin for Eve as CCP continues it's valiant war against people who actually like playing the game enough to have enough clients to justify Isboxer.

I remember when this was going to happen during the lifetime of the old launcher.

And yet many people where convinced that there were no issues.

Whatevs, literally don't want us to play the game.

This is good. Just have to deal wit the problem that sometimes it forget all the account i have on it and i have to re enter all the info.

Will third party launchers such as Rapid Light EVE Launcher continue to work?

https://github.com/Frosty-nee/rlel

On an unrelated note all but one member of my corp, the 7th largest independent corp in New Eden , rely on RLEL to log in to the game.


Sources:-
: https://evewho.com/

As someone who uses ISBoxer for screen management and doesn't abuse any of the features that have been banned, I do not support this change. Managing 5 accounts is a hassle without third party software and no other third-party software come close to screen management like ISBoxer can.

Just had to reinstall the whole damn game because it got stuck in an update loop >_>

Having only switched over to the new launcher the past 6 months from using Exefile for many years I find its really streamlined my login, who can moan over clicking 1 button to login all your characters?

Maybe i have just been lucky.

As for forgetting all your login details make sure you create another profile then switch your login to this and pin, hey presto.

CCP, can we first please get a resolution to the security issues of non-expiring login/refresh tokens?