Explanatory introduction: When I just want to read the forum on my Android phone without being logged in I noticed two things that I find annoying.
As a right handed person, I keep getting my thumbs on the link and “I Like” icons. This of course redirects me to the login page. Then I have to go back with 2 clicks and restart the translation in Chrome.
I’m sorry but it’s really extremely annoying.
I am attaching a small image to make it easier to understand.
So my question on this topic; Can you provide a setting to switch from right handed to left handed. Then the icons would be on the right side and would not interfere in the workflow.
As a 2nd I noticed when I logged out of Ask-Fedora and then come back as described above e.g. on the “I Like” button I am automatically logged back in. This behavior seems to be related to the cookie. If I delete this, the behavior is again as expected. How long this automatic login is present I can not say. This behavior does not speak for security.
We don’t develop the software that this forum uses (Discourse). We just pay Discourse to host it for us on one of their plans.
I had a quick look at the admin settings and didn’t see a setting to modify the interface. So, this is an issue/feature that will need to be reported to/request at Discourse directly:
I haven’t been able to look into this yet. You should’ve received a notification from the website that it uses cookies, in any case.
It is simply that the SSO is set up to authorize logins for a period of time. It is still validating that your account is active, just not re-prompting for a password. I think this is fine for the level of security risk hijacking a session on Ask Fedora presents. Other services require re-authentication each time.
And extra bonus: instead of being prompted for a password, if you get a Kerberos ticket (not sure how on mobile, but for example in GNOME, configure “enterprise login” for yourusername@FEDORAPROJECT.ORG).
