Dear Community Members, I am reaching out for help with a critical issue affecting our Discourse forum at starorigin.net . Users are experiencing a severe login/logout bug that is paralyzing our community. When attempting to log out, the page refreshes but fails to fully log out, displaying a messag…

@shannon1024 can you … Disable Cloudflare? Also Purge the Cloudflare cache [Screenshot 2025-01-07 091638]

My console just reported an error: [PLUGIN discourse-tooltips] “Deprecation notice: Modifying topic-list with reopen is deprecated. Use the value transformer topic-list-columns and other new topic-list plugin APIs instead. [deprecated since Discourse v3.4.0.beta3-dev] [deprecation id: discourse.h…

shannon: This plugin appears to have been deprecated, so I’ll try removing it and see what happens. I don’t believe so, that’s just a developer awareness deprecation warning for an api it is using, that is now deprecated. It is not an error. That specific API will not be removed until Q2.

Interesting… Just now I freshly opened your site (but did not Login) in Firefox (which I have never used yet to go to your site, or even at all this morning), and even without logging in I see there that I am logged in as that same other user… Then, a few minutes later the page refreshed itself aga…

In Brave browser I see this… [Screenshot 2025-01-07 082508]

Could this discussion be related: [image] Discourse & Cloudflare Self-hosting This discussion is very valuable. For a Chinese website administrator, Could Flare means whether Chinese users can normally exchange data with the outside world. I did a test some ti…

Yes, as you mentioned, this is not an issue with the plugin. I still cannot pinpoint and resolve this problem at the moment.

I tried logging in again (using Brave) and got this (I see I am logged in with my correct user avatar)… [Screenshot 2025-01-07 083941] But then after I refresh the page again I am logged out… [A screenshot of a Discourse forum with various topics and replies. (Captioned by AI)] I also go to th…

The user directory is only updated once a day (except for “today”, which is updated once per hour). Looking at the “Last Updated” time, I am not surprised that you aren’t in that list now.

Thanks @Moin you are right… [Screenshot 2025-01-07 085627]

Still in Brave browser, I refresh the page many times and am (correctly) still showing as logged in. Then, I click the Logout button, but I still remain Logged in, even after subsequent browser “Hard Reload”, as well as then “Empty Cache and and Hard Reload”… [Screenshot 2025-01-07 090028] Next …

Login and Logout Errors from Cache Settings Conflict with Cloudflare

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This doc lists some of the common pitfalls when using Cloudflare:

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