# The discourse stopped working with error 500 Internal Server Error

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-stopped-working-with-error-500-internal-server-error/58526
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 7, 2017, 8:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-stopped-working-with-error-500-internal-server-error/58526 "2017-03-07T08:08:49Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-discourse-stopped-working-with-error-500-internal-server-error/58526/2 "2017-03-07T14:30:34Z")

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This is actually this issue:

> [@Reports of user logged out twice today - related to recent auth tokens changes?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reports-of-user-logged-out-twice-today-related-to-recent-auth-tokens-changes/57330):
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> On the [SE23 Forum](https://se23.life) I’ve had a few bug reports today which concerned me. The most notable error is a user being logged out twice when returning to the site on her iPad. “I came back to the site after some time and it auto-refreshed on my iPad. So I would see things as if I was logged in and then when it auto-refreshed, I was logged out. Hasn’t happened every time today, but happened twice” I upgraded Discourse to the latest core code late last night, and also added the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) and Topic Li…

A side effect of one of my fixes, I reopened the original, lets keeps all discussion there.

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