Ask HN: Why do I keep getting logged out of HN?

2 points by eloff ↗ HN
I've noticed I often get logged out of HN and logging in again just redirects me to the main page logged out again. It takes a couple days sometimes before I can login again. Using Firefox on android.

I thought maybe this is caused by posting something against guidelines, but it happens too often for me to be breaking the rules so much.

Then I thought maybe it's a way of dealing with load, since is cheap to serve cached static content from a CDN. I seem to recall HN does this, but it's new that is happening so often. I doubt HN is growing that fast anymore.

Maybe it's just a bug?

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It's weird. Try contacting the mods hn@ycombinator.com

Notice that if you log out in one device/browser, you will be logged out in every device/browser.

I can login as many times as I want, but it doesn't actually log me in.
Websites set log in status via the browser's cookie mechanism. Have you made any changes to that in your browser?
Nope, cookies fully enabled.