Wish I had a screengrab of this, but occasionally when I open the awful.systems page, it looks like I’ve logged in as a different user. Just now the username “autumnal” appeared instead of my own. Don’t know how to reproduce.

This has happened in chrome on macosx a few times, haven’t seen it elsewhere.

  • @selfMA
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    72 months ago

    oh that’s fucking weird. it might have something to do with how bonkers lemmy’s session handling is

    I’m planning an update to the latest Lemmy release fairly soon; usually I hold off on updates a bit because new Lemmy releases tend to have horrific bugs that nobody seems to talk about [1], but we’re nearing the time when an update makes sense. we should check after that update if it fixes this bug; if not, it’s one of the things we can fix in our fork.

    [1] but the admin of a large instance sure as fuck will come here and link lemmy’s worthless docs to say the problem is mine, and when I look I find out their instance had the same fucking issue but they were too big to notice a bunch of their userbase was broken

    • @swlabrOP
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      2 months ago

      Extra context: it’s only for a beat, then it reverts to the correct username. The theme also went from light to dark (my selected theme). Sorry to dox your background theme, autumnal!

      • @autumnal
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        52 months ago

        I don’t mind, I’m just a lurker and made an account for light theme (dark theme isn’t great on my eyes)