User still able to log in after anonymization

sam · November 26, 2025, 4:18am

computer says there is a bug here, will see if I can quickly fix it.

AI Conversation with Us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929-v1:0

Discourse Anonymization Doesn't Log Users Out

sam: The moderation team on the Discourse instance I admin received a request from a user who wanted to leave the forum. Specifically, they asked that their account be anonymized and that we remove their ability to log in to the forum in future. (We’re a login required, invite-only community.) Around 12:30pm today I anonymized the account. Since I had read here and in other places on Meta that anonymi…

GitHub_Helper_bot: Let me investigate how Discourse handles user anonymization and what happens to authentication sessions. Let me look at the main user anonymizer service: Now let me search for session handling and logout related code to see if anonymization logs users out: Now let me look specifically at what happens to auth tokens during anonymization: Perfect! Now I can see the issue. Let me check how …

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This should catch a lot more.

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User still able to log in after anonymization

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