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Sit on a page for a long period of time without other activity (for example, minimized web browser for 30-45 minutes)
Interact with a post by hitting the upvote or downvote button
I’d imagine some session token is expiring and when you send the request for the upvote/downvote it rejects the call due to an expired token. Then the page refreshes and logs you out. Pressing the home page again will auto-log you back in.
Also a major mitigation would be if it redirected you to the page you were on, ideally with what you had written already filled in, after you log back in.
Better yet: if logging in was just a detour to submitting a comment or post. So if you try to post something and you’re not logged in, you get presented with the login screen, put in your login information, send, and the post you were trying to make gets posted.
I have an eye on this issue. I can’t reproduce it myself, but I will have a few additional devices for testing this week.
I have a solid repro:
Sit on a page for a long period of time without other activity (for example, minimized web browser for 30-45 minutes)
Interact with a post by hitting the upvote or downvote button
I’d imagine some session token is expiring and when you send the request for the upvote/downvote it rejects the call due to an expired token. Then the page refreshes and logs you out. Pressing the home page again will auto-log you back in.
If it helps, I’m on Firefox desktop (Linux).
Also a major mitigation would be if it redirected you to the page you were on, ideally with what you had written already filled in, after you log back in.
Better yet: if logging in was just a detour to submitting a comment or post. So if you try to post something and you’re not logged in, you get presented with the login screen, put in your login information, send, and the post you were trying to make gets posted.