Signing into apple support communities is difficult

When I want to reply to a post on the Apple Support Communitues, I have to first click the "Sign in" button at the top-left of the screen.
This then signs me in and takes me back to the communities homepage, not to the thread I wanted to reply to.
I then have to use my browsers' history (chrome, firefox) to find the page that I wanted to reply to.
At this point, the screen says "Sign in" - it doesn't think I am signed in.
If I refresh, it still says "sign in" as opposed to "logout".
I have to modify the querystring on the page - e.g. add &z=12345 to the end. This then seems to convince the browser and/or apple site to realise that I am in fact logged in and that I can in fact reply. I;ve tried disabling the browsers' cache settings so that it always pulls the latest version - both as via the browsers internal tools, and through a local proxy server like Charles - it does not appear to be a local browser caching issue.
There doesn't seem to be a way for the site to "remember" my login. If I accidentally close the window and then re-open it, I'm logged off again. This is very frustrating.
I have also tried posting images to the community pages using apple's editor but it seems I'm the only one who can see them. What is the point of that?
I have tried using a direct connection (pppoe) to the internet without a router (e.g connecting the ethernet cable to the optical modem) and without a proxy server, just to be sure that it's not my network. I've also reset the browsers, and tried alternative browsers like Safari, Firefox and Chrome.

You run into a bug.  It's nasty. This has always worked for me, but maybe not for you.  I do not use a proxy service.  Seems like it could be a problem. I do not know.
Also is doing that thing where I get stuck in a Login Loop seemingly logged in at the forum root but showing up as logged out when I select a topic.
Here is a potential work-around for this problem in Firefox.
Firefox. You need to clear the web cache.
login from some other browser tab.
edit > preferences > advanced tab > click on clear now
reload page with login problem.
I believe this "solution" was posted by Hiroto.
It's worked for me.  I've gotten this down pat.

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