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by CaptainOfCoit 235 days ago
> couple folks on reddit said while they were refreshing during the outage, they were briefly logged in as a whole different user

Didn't ChatGPT have a similar issue recently? Would sound awfully similar.

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Steam also had this, classic caching issue.
This happened to me on Twitter maybe like, 9 years ago? What's the mechanism of action that causes this to happen?
The easiest way to do this is to misconfigure your CDN so that it caches set-cookie headers.