Remember me: be more forthcoming about how many days

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Remember me: be more forthcoming about how many days

Closed this issue 3 months ago · 16 comments

On the login page there is a checkbox "[ ] Remember me".

OK but for how many days is a big secret.

Add a mouseover saying for how many days.

If the user knew it was supposed to remember for X days, but it didn't, then he could report a bug with confidence it was a bug.

Answer 1 · 2019-12-08T11:44:10.000Z

Else with no clarification, it means "remember me forever".

Answer 2 · 2019-12-08T11:53:19.000Z

One finds a cookie, _osm_session
Created Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 7:36:15 PM
Expires Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 7:48:20 PM
Therefore the mouseover should say "Remembers you for four weeks."

Answer 3 · 2019-12-08T11:56:26.000Z

So apparently, even if one opens their browser every day and browses the site, after the four weeks are up, one will find oneself suddenly logged out, perhaps. Anyway all this should be made clear in the mouseover, or nearby help button.

Answer 4 · 2019-12-08T11:57:34.000Z

As this is Openstreetmap, one would expect all this to be out in the open.

Answer 5 · 2019-12-08T15:15:25.000Z

I think it's actually broken. I think originally it was four weeks from the last time you used the site but the refresh of the expiry seems to have got lost and it is now four weeks from login.

Answer 6 · 2019-12-08T15:22:49.000Z

I can confirm that lately I've been getting logged out frequently with this checked (weirdly after even less than four weeks).

Answer 7 · 2019-12-08T16:37:04.000Z

That is not related. I suspect that we're starting to run low on memory in the memcache store which will cause sessions to be evicted.

Answer 8 · 2019-12-09T03:50:10.000Z

@tomhughes: van you please turn my notifications back on. I am only getting notified about other peoples' comments, not yours.

Answer 9 · 2019-12-18T15:47:12.000Z

That is not related. I suspect that we're starting to run low on memory in the memcache store which will cause sessions to be evicted.

Is there anything we can do in this repo? Or should we move the ticket to operations?

Answer 10 · 2021-01-20T18:35:30.000Z

I can confirm that lately I've been getting logged out frequently with this checked (weirdly after even less than four weeks).

Now it seems down to about a couple of days! Getting less and less. Certainly some cache is getting filled up. Wish TomHughes could help.

Answer 11 · 2022-06-23T07:33:15.000Z

That is not related. I suspect that we're starting to run low on memory in the memcache store which will cause sessions to be evicted.

So the session keys aren't saved in the DB, only in memory?

Answer 12 · 2022-06-23T08:41:37.000Z

Correct, the production system uses memcache for sessions so the session data is not in the database.

Answer 13 · 2024-06-22T18:19:58.000Z

I think this is not actionable in this repo. In case there's still a need to bump the memcache size, please create a new issue on the operations repo instead: https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations

Answer 14 · 2024-06-27T00:34:07.000Z

Thanks, but which
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/new/choose
category should I use?

Answer 15 · 2024-06-27T05:50:57.000Z

„Open a blank issue.“
(That’s a link somewhere at the bottom)

Answer 16 · 2024-07-05T23:51:33.000Z

OK but there they say:

I definitely see the issue that you are referring to but I am unable it as all evidence says it shouldn't be down to memcache.

So maybe I should just be happy with however many days it remembers and give up trying to get it stabilized.

Odd, on wiki.openstreetmap.org one seems to stay logged in for years and years, but on openstreetmap.org it's just a few days.