I am currently getting signed out every minute from lemmy.world. This is not a client side cache issue. I tested making API calls from the command line (with curl) with no cache and the issue still occurs. One call I get the correct response, the next I get a 400 telling me im not signed in.

I’m primarily testing with the https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user/unread_count api endpoint. I’m not sure if this issue occurs with all endpoints.

Reproduction steps:

  1. Get a lemmy.world JWT token for your account using your desired method (eg. postman).
  2. curl https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user/unread_count?auth={JWT_TOKEN_HERE}
  3. Note the 400 error. If you do not get an error repeat step 2.

Edit

This issue only seems to affect lemmy.world so a temporary workaround is to use a different instance for the time being.

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Antik 👾@lemmy.world
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Just a quick statement from the admins team to say that we are aware of the issue and yes we are looking into this.

Thank you @idunnololz@lemmy.world for the elaborate report and everyone else for their patience while we try to sort this one out!

Edit: Lemmy was upgraded to 0.18.2

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Thank you for making a statement about it!

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Thank you for all that you do for this place. I am consistently amazed at how quickly y’all are able to resolve issues.

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o7

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Same issue here, I’m being automatically logged out of my lemmy.world account in Firefox. If I refresh the page even immediately after logging in, I’m automatically logged out.

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Same problem for me it seems, dunno if I’ll even be able to comment. Refuses to stay logged in.

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From my tests, it’s almost perfectly a 50/50 whether any API requests you make will yield a 200 (success) or a 400 (not signed in). If you perform an action that takes 3 API requests, your chances of succeeding is (1/2)^3 or 1/8 because only 1 request needs to fail in the chain for the entire action to fail. So, as long as you make single API actions you can maximize your success rate :D

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What’s an example of something that would take more than one API request?

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Signing in. Most websites/apps will probably also grab your unread count, and maybe even your subscription feeds.

Another example is checking your inbox. Lemmy actually has 3 inboxes: mentions, replies and PMs. A lot of websites/apps bundle these three so they will need to check all 3 inboxes via 3 API calls.

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Smells like two instances behind the load balancer, one is fine with the JWT, one is not.

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Seems like spamming actions also gets it to work eventually. It’s a pain in the arse though lol. I made some alt accounts on other instances, but I’m lazy and don’t wanna rebuild my subscription feed if I don’t have to, so hopefully it gets fixed at some point.

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I’m having to reauthenticate in safari and wefwef every time I load a new page. Furthermore, the login is frequently failing.

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Login in likely always succeeding. The issue is that whatever app/website you use will make additional API calls afterwards (eg. fetch posts or fetch unread count). Each of those calls have a 1-in-2 chance to succeed and if any of them fail, they all fail and you will be booted out.

Lemmy is now an RNG game. We must prayge to rngesus before making any actions.

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Schroedinger’s API call.

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Thaaats what’s going on

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