Meh, if it is then it is (e.g. I could use another app, or like... actually make a password that I can remember hehe:-), but either way I'd at least like to know.
This is the second time now that a week after I log into the app a pop-up has come up titled "Login Session Expired", continuing with "Your login session is no longer valid. Please login again." The options are to login or logout, I can't simply click away. Force-closing the app does work to get around this requirement - except obviously I lose my place in whatever I was reading through, but I can vote and comment again. So obviously the "expiration" was false if I can continue beyond it, but I forget for how long that works before the expiration dialogue comes back again.
Is this normal behavior? If not then are there any ideas why I am seeing it - like perhaps my installation via FDroid rather than the Play Store could be a factor? If it is, then how do people usually deal with this - the force close and reopen method I've been using so far?
11 Comments
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 16h
Might want to ask your instance Admins about that.
I have never had it ask me to relogin to Lemmy.world or any of the other defunked instance I had accounts on.
I also have it installed from fdroid.
OpenStars@discuss.online · 3 pts · 10h
Fwiw, this behavior does not occur in either the Summit 3rd-party app or the standard web UI with Firefox on Android - both with this same account on discuss.online. So it does seem unique to Voyager, or at least something between Voyager and this instance. But that's great to know that it's high unusual and others installing from FDroid aren't seeing this.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 16h
That might be something from your instance, I have three accounts on three different instances and I never had to log back in on any of them, not even the account that I barely use.
Jarvis2323@programming.dev · 8 pts · 11h
Not for me. Can’t remember the last time I had to login
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 10h
At least you're getting it after login. I've gotten it several times while in the middle of a lengthy comment. I think it's related to instance because sometimes I just can't login and I have to re-register my server.
OpenStars@discuss.online · 2 pts · 10h
I've responded to several comments since then, and voted, and read several posts - basically it's back to normal. Until the pop-up reappears.:-(
I don't even know why a session needs to "expire" in the first place, but it is what it is. Voyager is a very nice app and I hope I can find a way to use it.
hot_mocha_decaf@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 13h
This started happening to one of my accounts a while ago too, except mine expires much more frequently, several times within maybe a few hours, made that account unusable with the Voyager app. It doesnt happen with the Blorp app tho.
Just today another account of mine that Id been using gave me the session expired popup as well. So far this lemmy cafe account hasnt timed out, but both my other ones have now.
OpenStars@discuss.online · 1 pts · 10h
This never happens to me using Summit - so yeah it seems app-dependent, or at least presents that way to my naive eyes. Thanks for the suggestion about Blorp:-). And that's good to know that Voyager is causing that for you regardless of account (& presumably instance).
Maybe we are just using the app wrong, somehow, or something, I dunno. 😜
mactan@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 12h
that's most of why I use voyager, lemmy.ml makes me log in with 2fa every couple days
aeharding@vger.social · 2 pts · 9h
Are you on the latest version of the app?
mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 4h
That is strange! I logged in once and have never had to re-login on Voyager