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Tell PG: Logout is broken

13 points by arohner 15y ago

On OSX Chrome and Firefox, the logout button doesn't work, both on the home page, and the YC application page (http://news.ycombinator.com/apply)

jmonegro 15y ago
Works for me, OSX chrome.
gojomo 15y ago
Works for me, OSX FF7 (beta channel).
ltamake 15y ago
Works on my iPad.
aangjie 15y ago
Works fine on fedora 15. Chrome 14 FF 6 Both work fine.
CrazedGeek 15y ago
Works for me, Android 3.2 Browser.
dkokelley 15y ago
Hmm. Works for me in Win 7 Chrome. I'd be curious if the issue is related to the login method. I use clickpass with Google.
moe 15y ago
Works for me on OSX Chrome 14.
Bud 15y ago
Logout is NOT broken in OS X Lion either in Chrome (14.0.835.163) or Firefox (6.0), on my machine at least. However, logout can be extremely slow, and it seems to get slower if you bang on login/logout a lot; HN might have coded in some delays to keep users from slowing the server down. My guess is, this user just didn't wait long enough for logout to work.
- arohner 15y ago
  Nope, I'm waiting for the page to refresh on its own. My username stays in the upper right corner the whole time. I "logged out" between viewing this comment and replying to it. It's also broken for me on OSX Safari. I don't understand how I can be the only one with this problem on multiple browsers.
  - gojomo 15y ago
    If it's hanging in both browsers, could be a network issue... I've occasionally seen paths to some (but not all) websites suffer from hanging HTTP/TCP connections, perhaps due to packet sizing/fragmentation/loss issues. Does the problem happen for you at another location? Any new local routers/switches/access-points in the local mix? Does another OS on the same network (perhaps even via a VM on OSX) show the same issue? Notably, when testing this, I discovered that logging out of HN from anywhere logs you out from everywhere. So even using a smartphone to login/logout might be a workaround for getting your OSX login session invalidated. (Of course discarding the browser cookies should work as well for the local browser.)
niico 15y ago
Trollface he made you all log out and log back in again.

13 points by arohner 15y ago

On OSX Chrome and Firefox, the logout button doesn't work, both on the home page, and the YC application page (http://news.ycombinator.com/apply)

jmonegro 15y ago

Works for me, OSX chrome.

gojomo 15y ago

Works for me, OSX FF7 (beta channel).

ltamake 15y ago

Works on my iPad.

aangjie 15y ago

Works fine on fedora 15. Chrome 14 FF 6 Both work fine.

CrazedGeek 15y ago

Works for me, Android 3.2 Browser.

dkokelley 15y ago

Hmm. Works for me in Win 7 Chrome. I'd be curious if the issue is related to the login method. I use clickpass with Google.

moe 15y ago

Works for me on OSX Chrome 14.

Bud 15y ago

Logout is NOT broken in OS X Lion either in Chrome (14.0.835.163) or Firefox (6.0), on my machine at least. However, logout can be extremely slow, and it seems to get slower if you bang on login/logout a lot; HN might have coded in some delays to keep users from slowing the server down. My guess is, this user just didn't wait long enough for logout to work.

arohner 15y ago
Nope, I'm waiting for the page to refresh on its own. My username stays in the upper right corner the whole time. I "logged out" between viewing this comment and replying to it. It's also broken for me on OSX Safari. I don't understand how I can be the only one with this problem on multiple browsers.
- gojomo 15y ago
  If it's hanging in both browsers, could be a network issue... I've occasionally seen paths to some (but not all) websites suffer from hanging HTTP/TCP connections, perhaps due to packet sizing/fragmentation/loss issues. Does the problem happen for you at another location? Any new local routers/switches/access-points in the local mix? Does another OS on the same network (perhaps even via a VM on OSX) show the same issue? Notably, when testing this, I discovered that logging out of HN from anywhere logs you out from everywhere. So even using a smartphone to login/logout might be a workaround for getting your OSX login session invalidated. (Of course discarding the browser cookies should work as well for the local browser.)

niico 15y ago

Trollface he made you all log out and log back in again.