Curious: How often are people auto-signed out of Reddit?

5  2015-12-09 by IanPhlegming

Hey....just tried positing a comment to a guy I thought was a troll, but a fairly smart one. I think the comment went through, but then I got the spinning MAC rainbow circle of suck, and my web experience froze all over and I closed out and when I came back I'd been signed out of Reddit and had to sign back in.

Anybody else much go through this? Whadda think? Bug? Evil Feature?

27 comments

I don't get signed out unless I sign out or I close out my session/browser window.

I do get A LOT of 503s, like constant. For the past week, every time I load any page on Reddit, it takes a full 5 seconds and fails with a 503 the first time probably 70% of the time. Submitting comments 503s probably 30-40% of the time.

I guess it's good training for quitting at the end of the month, the entire experience of Reddit has become unpleasant.

Hmmm. Never get that. Interesting.

I still like Reddit, tho not as much. I know they're on us. I wonder what we're missing. There's been nothing like that creepy day care place investigation a while back in a long time.

Every 14 minutes

You work for the government, right?

Yep

Never, unless I do command q in my browser.

I didn't do CommandQ.

Hmm.. So what are you suggesting? You are being auto logged off by malware/malicious content? I'm kind of confused...

Not necessarily. Could easily be a problem on my Mac when I've got too many windows open or some fuckup with my ISP or some other random virtual weirdness. I have no idea.

Could just be a RAM thing, homie. Too many processes, lack of resources. Like I said, force quite a program will wipe the cache, which signs me out of reddit. I don't think you have anything to worry about..

I got logged out of my entire Linux session earlier, not sure if it was a bug or more but that distro got blitzed entirely.

Hmmm. Thank you for your reply.

No probs, after lengthy testing I do not recommend LXLE. Too many bugs/security holes.

I stay away from anything Ubuntu-related anymore, too much crapware in it. Plus, after being around so many years, they STILL break basic configuration shit on upgrade that a few extra easy test cases could catch. If I feel the need for the comforting feel of Ubuntu, I just do Debian and add-on what I want.

Ubuntu gave me a first-footing with Linux years ago but has definitely lost the plot since then, I'm rather more into Fedora these days as it's damn secure and quite stable now. No complaints with Debian either though, it's keeping my ancient iMac going strong.

Yeah, I'm a big CentOS abuser these days. Cool deal putting Debian on an old Mac. Hadn't even thought about that besides using a VM. Can't ever find a Windows-based laptop with a keyboard I like, so maybe will do that - thanks for the idea!

I tried many distros to get the imac working, for a single core G5 Debian 7.9 was the only one that worked properly (after sticking 2gb of ram in it) but the sound still needed some tweaking. If it's got a later non-G5 processor you can probably run centos on it though. Mac Wifi is notoriously annoying though, I just stuck a belkin dongle in mine :)

If sound and wifi are the only drivers that didn't behave, that's still pretty impressive. I'd have assumed it'd be a driver nightmare and nothing would work. Heck, wifi and xconfig break on Ubuntu just about every update on supported hardware (seriously, guys, how hard to backup and merge xorg.conf on update or at least provide an option to hand-tweak on reboot after update, sheesh).

Sound was just a config tweak issue but wifi means compiling your own broadcom driver from source (I think it's broadcom), so much quicker to install dongle firmware but that's maybe not ideal for a laptop. The video on imac is old nvidia and caused huge issues with 3D on other distros. To LXLE's credit they didn't actually break anything hardware on my old Toshiba laptop with updates but there were bugs.

Has never happened to me.

Thank you for weighing in!

My pleasure. Android, btw.

Never logged out. But I have been getting "new" messages from comments I already responded to and marked as read days ago.

I have a mac and use firefox. I don't ever remember being logged out. not even over a few years....

Actually this has been happening on my iPhone recently. I hadn't thought much about it, but yep.

My Mac hasn't done it though.

Strange, I didn't pay this post much attention because it's never happened to my account before, but somehow I got logged out overnight.

Innnnnnnteresting. Thank you.