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Kbin's "Log in" bug is discouraging me from participating (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every time I try to upvote or boost something, there's a solid 20% chance it'll link to an Error page titled "Log in". That percentage seems to increase the longer I've had my Kbin tab open without refreshing it.

Even more annoyingly, it regularily logs me off completely, forcing me to input my information again. It's especially annoying on mobile since it won't even remember my password for some reason, which was randomly generated, meaning it's a pain to re-enter it every time.

The effect is that it's making me interact with Kbin less and less, I end up just scrolling without upvoting or commenting or anything, and ultimately I also just use the site less overall.

I like it here otherwise, but this one bug is making Kbin a real chore to use, and I know a lot more people have been experiencing it for a while now.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't have this issue at all yet, very rarely I do get logged out without me doing anything but that happens only while I am not using kbin at all so I just have to log back in and nothing is lost.

Errors while upvoting posts I do sometimes get and I'm thinking that the problem is that I'm upvoting something at exactly the same time someone else is. It leads me to an error page, I click the back button to get back to the post, reload the page and upvote again and it works.

But I never got sent to a login page as an error.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The error page I get sent to just says "Error" but the tab's name is "Log in", personally. That's why I assume it's some kind of log in issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This might actually be a helpful detail for @Ernest. Come to think of it I think I'd noticed this too, but when you hit back you are still logged in.

I'm using mobile, so don't see the tab name, but my name is replaced with 'login' from what I remember. I'll screenshot and edit this comment next time it happens.

Edit: ok I was wrong. On mobile it does still show my Avatar, not the 'login' text on the generic "Error" page.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe. I just never really looked at the tabs name and just hit back 🤷. I was never logged out though so either we had different errors or it really was just an assumption on your side.

I'd need to re-encounter my error to check, but now that I want to re-encounter it, it won't ever happen again.

Edit: Actually ☝️🤓, I literally JUST re-encountered it, the page did indeed say "Log in" but I was still logged in and my profile picture etc still showed up in the upper right as usual.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the same thing, and far more often with larger threads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes it seems like in those instances, maybe the page hasn't finished loading completely, and waiting a little bit before retrying the action fixes it.