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by lxgr 374 days ago
This is why 24 hours is a particularly bad timespan for reauthentication. With e.g. 16 hours, you’d at least get a predictable prompt on each new workday.
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One time I led a project and ran daily standups by screen-sharing our Asana board so the team could review in-progress tasks. Every day, right in the middle of the meeting, Asana logged me out. I’d rush to log back in to finish the review, thus ensuring we’d repeat the cycle exactly 24 hours later. This silly dance lasted the whole project.
Ironically, daily standups:project_management::frequent_reauth:security
Didn't you take weekends off?