New user here, yes I’m looking for alternatives to Reddit …

I created an account on lemmy.world, subscribed to a couple communities, and even replied to a post. So far, so good.

However, it keeps showing me as not logged in. The weird thing is I still have my subscribed communities, but am not logged in. Every once in a while when I try something more than reading, I have to login again (then again, sometimes I don’t). For example, by the time I read a bunch of posts in a community to decide whether I want to subscribe, I sometimes need to login again to subscribe

I’m browsing lemmy.world from Safari on iPad, and should have mostly default settings. Can anyone help with explaining or fixing this behavior? It’s really annoying.

    • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I just discovered this problem (regular chrome PWA) and noticed that at least sometimes I wasn’t really logged out, and refreshing it showed the correct view. Seems like yet another cache issue

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’ll have to try that next time. Ido see the list of communities I have subscribed to, as if I were logged in. However the GUI shows “sign in” where my profile should be, and I can’t do an action like subscribe to a community without logging in again.

        Edit: updated above: part of it does seem to be a caching issue, but in the other direction. After refreshing I am still logged out but can no longer see my subscribed communities. The caching problem is seeing those despite being logged out.

        It doesn’t change how annoying it is to have to login multiple times in a single browsing session

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Maybe. My iPad is pretty old so maybe it pages out of memory more often than a modern one would.

      I am up to date on iPadOS, but my model is on the list likely to be dropped from support in September