(Forked from Re: [Wikitech-l] "Not logged in" page)
Is it time to revisit this behaviour? It's come up as being a usability problem a few times now.
Currently if I log out of a public computer it logs me out of my tablet device,mobile device and home computer. :(
See bug for reference [1]
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49890 On 15 Jul 2014 18:38, "Bryan Davis" bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
regularly. I've found mediawiki logs me out despite the 'keep me logged in' box, when logging out on a different device, etc.
Well that's the bug then no and that should be fixed. Help us work out
why
it is occurring and let's get that dealt with.:)
We shouldn't be designing features for edge cases!
Logout was discussed recently on the QA list [0]. The discussion lead to Jon Robson pointing out bug 49890 [1] where Chris Steipp stated that logout is global.
[1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49890
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