The Glowfic Constellation

[Kappa]

About three times across last night and this morning, I logged in on my gadget (Chrome on Android) with Remember Me checked, read a little bit of glowfic, put the tablet down for a while, picked it up again, reloaded the page, and had to log in again. IDK what's up with that but it might possibly be related to DanielH's thing?

[DanielH]

I use Opera for Android. It might happen on browser restart and/or at other times; I am not sure. My browser recently restarted and it just happened, so that’s at least a good hypothesis; another hypothesis I have is that it happens on IP address change.

What happened is that, approximately simultaneously, my wi-fi connection dropped and my browser restarted. Then my connection was re-established and I attempted to refresh the open-threads page. Instead I got a message that I was not logged in.

I always hit the “Remember me” checkbox when I log in.

[DanielH]

Update: I just deliberately restarted my browser and tried again, and got the same issue; as far as I know I was not assigned a new IP address since last time, but my signal is spotty (which shouldn’t make a difference if NAT is set up correctly but I don’t know if it is).

[anthusiasm]

Question: would it be okay if I gave a friend of mine Constellation access? We RP together sometimes but she's too socially anxious to join the wider glowfic community (all our threads would probably be private). Unfortunately I have been totally ruined for Dreamwidth after using the Constellation, so I'm having a hard time getting up the motivation to write with her. Does anyone have strong objections?

[Kappa]

Sounds totally fine to me.

[Alicorn]

If this became common we'd be adding sever load without growing the community, but if it actually becomes common enough to be a problem we can, like, ask them to throw Marri money? I have no other complaints.

[anthusiasm]

If it becomes a problem I'm willing to throw Marri money on her behalf.

[Marri]

I am fine with this! I always appreciate contributions but one person is not likely to tip us over in anything. :)

[Ezra]

Just now had the problem again of refreshing when I _thought_ I'd clicked on a permalink, but I hadn't so it took me to the bottom of the next page again.

[DanielH]

Bug report:

The thread “blue blooded” is currently showing up as having unread posts when I look at https://glowfic.com/users/2, and when I open it in a private tab I see posts which I haven’t seen before while logged in. However, it does not show up in https://glowfic.com/posts/unread (regardless of the value of the started URL parameter).

This state of affairs survives page refresh.

I will try to leave it in that condition, in the hopes that you could investigate, but I have no idea how to reproduce this or how fragile it is, so I might accidentally make it show up correctly in both lists or something.

ETA: Never mind, the actual relevant change is that it was added to Lighthouse, which was hidden from Unread. I feel like “opened” should override “hidden” there, but we’ve had that discussion before and now that I know what’s going on I can wait for better filtering.