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I keep getting logged out today. Is it just me? (self.meta)
submitted 3 months ago by nulluser to c/meta
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The title says it all. Not even sure if it's going to keep me logged in long enough to submit this post.

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[–] snowe 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

so it sounds like default frontend, maybe tied to the version we have (we're still a few versions behind), only mobile ff.

[–] nulluser 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think I figured out how to reproduce it really quick.

  1. Log in to Lemmy on Firefox
  2. Switch to a different app
  3. Switch back to Firefox
  4. Reload the page.

Poof! I'm out. I repeated the test multiple times to confirm it's consistent. Probably actually getting kicked out on step 2. It's like FF decides to expire the Lemmy cookies when the app loses focus.

Armed with that info, I retested two alternate front ends on programming.dev (a. & t.) and default front end on lemmy.world and default front end on programming.drv with Brave. I was previously getting logged out on lemmy.world, but not now (maybe they updated something? Or my test is still flawed.). So, with these steps I can only reproduce it on programming.dev with the default front end on Firefox.

[–] snowe 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What OS are you using? Version of FF?

[–] nulluser 2 points 2 months ago

I seem to have isolated the problem to using a link to the website on the phone's home screen (created from FF using the "Add to Home screen" option in the three dots menu next to the address bar.

Starting that way seems to give any session cookies a very short life and they disappear quickly (logging me out). I created a bookmark within FF and have been using that and haven't been logged out since.

In fact, if I use the home screen link to programming.dev, FF doesn't think I'm logged in, but then if I use the bookmark from within that same instance of FF, it instantly sees me as already logged in.

Very strange.

[–] RustySharp 1 points 3 months ago

Desktop FF here, been getting kicked off roughly once a day on default.

Not happening on Mlmym (old.), which I found to be better anyway. Wish I'd know about it before. Please keep it maintained!