I think I figured out how to reproduce it really quick.
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.
Update: Haven’t used my lemmy.world account in a while, so thought I’d test this out over there. Same thing happened after several minutes. Then I tried on Mastodon.world for a while and it seems to work fine. I’ll try giving the alternate front end another round of testing later today.
Addendum: Can’t reproduce the problem on t.programming.dev today, and couldn’t seem to on a.programming.dev yesterday, so it seems to be specific to the default Lemmy front end.
Ok, so pretty certain this is specific to my phone.
Browsed the recommended alternate front end for as long as I could stand it. Didn’t get logged out, but I may have just not waited long enough.
Back on normal frontend, I deleted all browsing data (cookies, etc), logged back in and then got kicked out within a few minutes.
Rebooting the phone now. 🤞
Update: Nope, still getting booted within a few minutes. Beyond just using a different browser, I’m out of ideas, so I’ll try that for a bit. 🤷
Update 2: Doesn’t seem to be happening in Brave. So currently, only in FF, only on my phone, clearing cookies and rebooting did not help.
I’m open to any more ideas.
Well, was a good idea, but alas, I deleted all browsing data (cookies, tabs, the whole shebang), logged back in and was kicked out within a few minutes.
Good idea. Thanks.
Not that I can think of. This just started this morning, and I haven’t done or installed anything recently that might cause this. If it’s only happening to me though…
No, just good old fashioned Firefox. I’ve tried several clients and didn’t really like any of them compared to the normal web interface. 🤷
This would make an excellent short film. The fire axes scene would be epic.
We still don’t seem to be syncing with lemmy.world.
Thank you! I’m glad it was a relatively easy fix.
Tangent: Whenever the news reports a major earthquake somewhere, I like to remind people that Plate Tectonic Theory is “just a theory” and that some religious leaders confidently assure us that earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women.
So, a byproduct of this process is, potentially, greenhouse gases? Yay.
IANAL, but I feel like if the heirs to an estate cared enough about the deceased’s Steam account enough to get the court involved, Steam wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. But that’s probably what it would take to get them to do the right thing.
I feel like I’ve been down voting a lot of posts linking to garbage articles on sciencealert. Starting to think it’s not a very reputable source of information.
Well, not anymore. /s
Been using Linux as my primary OS for (counts on fingers)… decades now. Called them folders the whole time. Never had a problem with it. Nobody who matters cares.
At the moment, it’s unknown if there was ever a real-world person behind this username or if Jia Tan is a completely fabricated individual.
Well, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a platypus. There was definitely one or more real-world people behind this. I doubt anyone thinks that their name is actually Jia Tan, though.
Water weight. You still drink water when fasting.
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.