OK, I did some testing repeating your steps, and I can confirm your own experience and findings:

(1) Logging in from the front page, results to it not acknowledging it.
(2) Opening secure.gog.com/ forum shows me as logged in.
(3) Reopening the front page results in everything being as should. But I still see that banner (the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that it has to do with the login system change, as I'm pretty sure that I used to not it before).

I didn't notice it until now, as I usually log in from the forum.
It resembles the problem I had when I was using the old GOG ruleset for HTTPSEverywhere, but differs at point (3), and disabling the add-on doesn't change the behaviour of the site.
There's definitely something going on here.

I can also confirm that if I keep my GOG cookie, the waiting times during login are much-much reduced.

The question is should we submit a support ticket or wait and see if things change down the road?

I've tried completely disabling HTTPS-Everywhere, and a few other extensions that could remotely have an effect, as well as BE2.0, and get the same results pretty much. I mentioned it to GOG support already though.

It's good to hear someone else can reproduce it but I'm just going to sit tight for now and see what happens over the next few days/week and probably tinker a bit more. I might also start with a fresh Firefox profile or something to see how that goes. Trying to get The Witcher Adventure to find any other players in multiplayer matchmaking right now to no avail... that's a bigger problem! :)

Confused. Looks like a phone number, but doesn't go anywhere. +83 is not a registered country calling code.

You're kidding I presume? ;) If not, it's like "+1" only much larger. :)

I have the same thing happen. Only visiting the Community page didn't fix it. Neither did a full refresh. Enabling NoScript made it work. At least this time. Who knows what the site will be doing tomorrow.

Could you please elaborate on what you enabled in NoScript?

A brain freeze. I meant HTTPS Everywhere.

Once I enabled the HTTPS Everywhere GOG rules, my login was recognize and the My Account link appeared in the header.

Not sure that the HTTPSEverywhere GOG ruleset plays a role in this issue, I even repeated the steps with the add-on itself enabled and disabled and the results were identical.

I'd need to run a couple more tests with a fresh profile or in Safe Mode, and then check all my add-ons that might be interfering.

A little bump to say that I no longer have any issues logging in via the front page, and since I haven't changed anything on my end, I assume that GOG fixed whatever was wrong. :-)


EDIT: But I do have the following issue now: the login screen locks my taskbar for as long as that swirl icon is spinning, i.e. any other open program is unclickable. I've been monitoring it for quite some time now (it wasn't happening at the beginning) and I'm fairly certain it's the new login screen causing it. Since the other issue was fixed, I'm hopeful that GOG's still working on the new login screen and any and all issues will be ironed out sooner or later. :-)