Comment 6 for bug 1169

Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/1169
>
> Comment:
> Nope, but consider me, a standard "luser" of the OpenID service provided
> by Launchpad.
>
> This morning, I go to view my livejournal friends list and it sends me
> to launchpad to log in in order to authenticate. I log in and view my
> friends list, all is well.
>
> Now, at four in the afternoon, I go to look again. Livejournal decides
> it wants to re-check my authentication and bounces me back to launchpad.
> If launchpad has remembered my login, all is well, otherwise I have to
> log back in again, which is annoying.
>
> Now consider I authenticate in the morning for livejournal, then a while
> later I attempt to use my openid on another site. By this time launchpad
> has forgotten because our sessions are too shoddy right now, and I have
> to authenticate to launchpad again.
>
> All in all, OpenID is meant to make it easier to use the web, not more
> annoying. As launchpad's session handling stands right now, it'd annoy
> me more than it'd make me happy.

Ok - so this is all a seperate issue.

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