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:
- Get a lemmy.world JWT token for your account using your desired method (eg. postman).
curl https://lemmy.world/api/v3/user/unread_count?auth={JWT_TOKEN_HERE}- 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.
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
Thank you for all that you do for this place. I am consistently amazed at how quickly y’all are able to resolve issues.
Sounds like lemmy.world runs on 2 instances and the requests are being loadbalanced between those two. That and that the jwt secret is different between those two instances causing one to accept and the other to reject
This is also my theory. I think you’re right on the money here. They probably rotated secrets from yesterday’s hack and forgot to restart both servers.
Same problem for me it seems, dunno if I’ll even be able to comment. Refuses to stay logged in.
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
What’s an example of something that would take more than one API request?
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.
Thaaats what’s going on
Yeah. Lemmy.world is currently unusable on the desktop. I don’t have that problem in Memmy. Growing pains but I hope the problem will be fixed soon. Do anyone know if one of the mods in North America are aware of the problem?
I was having trouble in liftoff and the browser. Cleared data and cache from liftoff thinking maybe something got messed up there and now I can’t even log back into my .world account 🤷♂️ I’ll hang here for a bit I guess.
