Just had to re-login to HN for the first time in weeks on Chromium. Android required a refresh (something about a user id conflict). Something must have changed on the backend.
Regarding the browser logout I had the same happen here, I was actually concerned I had been shadow-banned or something when I realised I had been automatically logged out.
Same here. Brief moment of panic when I couldn't get logged in and immediately started mentally going through my recent comments say "OMG, I didn't say anything that controversial did I?!!??" Luckily, that does not appear to be the case.
I had similar thinking. I was excited, almost. If I couldn't use HN anymore, I would have no choice but to move on!
Alas, it looks like I am trapped again.
add Safari on OS X to that list. Made me do a bit of a double take since the login was taken until I clicked the comments link at the top of the page.
Me too (Win7 x64 Chrome), but I could login without problems
Since upvotes are invisible, I guess I'll have to make a "me too" post. So yep, I also had to login for the first time in as long as I remember on Win7 x64, Chrome 24.
ditto on Safari OS X
Oh that's neat! I usually have to re-login every day on Chromium, HN never remembers my session past a few hours. I think it's got something to do with multiple devices - HN only allows one or two logged in sessions I think, and tablet/phone/laptop/desktop over the course of a day messes that up.
I think that the multi-device-thing is not a problem, I've been logged in for weeks (or months) from my laptop (Chrome), work PC (IE 6-8) and 2 different phones (android) without problems
If you explicitly logout from one browser, you are logged out from all. If you just close the window and discard the cookies, you remain logged in elsewhere.
Yep, both my home and work Chrome browsers required me to login this morning for the first time in about a year.