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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