Question

alter-ego profile-changing bug!
plot thickening...(updates, latest strangeness)

Answer 1

that's a long name for a bug..

Answer 2

let its scientific name be alterus egoisis profilisis changingum

Answer 3

xD lol

Answer 4

^indeed, lol
so...
I have more than one account on OS. When I was given a profile url for a specific user I clicked it (as TuringTest). When the window opened all of a sudden I was looking at it under my other profile name (which I will not divulge here) which is currently allowing me to have both profiles open at once.
Seems like a strange fluke, but I though I should at least report it.

Answer 5

thought*

Answer 6

hmm i have never encountered a situation wherein im logged in as lgbasallote and then when i click on a profile url i suddenly become ladiesman123, mr.awesome, princeofwetlot, igbasallote, foolforgirls, anonymousxyz, ivoryknight, whydopeopleloveowlsomuch, and so many of my other dupes...that i dont remember who

Answer 7

....You have too many dupes that I think Turing might have a heart attack.. o_o

Answer 8

i think that was just a few..

Answer 9

@lgbasallote , you have 10% of accounts I have

Answer 10

I was using the other profile that I was switched into earlier.
I have a few but it shifted me into the one I had been recently using, which I doubt is a coincidence.

Answer 11

xD I have NO doubts about that^

Answer 12

i have 5 or so accounts that i didnt mention because i had been keeping it secret from the mods...just in case i need back up accounts..

Answer 13

you can have multiple accounts so long as you are not doing it to game the system and avoid moderation, so you're okay lgb
unlike some *cough* others that might be *cough* reading this...

Answer 14

Hm. Were you logged into your alter ego on the same day within a half hour of clicking the link as Turing test?

Answer 15

We're currently load balancing between two frontend servers, the only way that this makes sense is you got moved over to a different server with different session info. Hm. But then you still shouldn't have been dropped into a new account.

Oh. Unless the link you clicked triggered an email verification for your alternate user? That would do it.

Answer 16

I was using the other profile within the same half hour. Hence I thought it a minor fluke.

The email verification thing is hard for me to elaborate on, because the account because I
1) opened that account before we had email verification's.

2) I have recently changed my Gmail entirely and closed tho old account, so if the confirmation could still be activated on my dead account I don't know how.

3) I received and have no notice about a verification on my current email. Not that I think you were implying that I did necessarily, but I'm just trying to give you all the relevant info I can think of.

Answer 17

It happened to me again later though that day by the way when I was given the link to a group.

Answer 18

I was able to do it again intentionally just now by copying the url of a user profile, leaving back to the math board under the name TuringTest, and copying the url onto the address bar. It did, (as I sort of expected) open up my other profile again, which I have not used since yesterday.

Answer 19

Ok, so now, every day I can do the same thing. If I try to take a user's profile url and put it into the address bar, or if I access a profile normally, I stay in this profile. However when I click the link to a users profile from my *messages*, I become my other profile in that new window. Works every time.

Answer 20

It seems that so long as I click the link from my messages, it opens my other profile.

Answer 21

I am going to make a test:
http://www.openstudy.com/users/wonder4

Answer 22

yep, every time I click that profile link I become my other profile

Answer 23

Ah. haha. You've discovered the difference between openstudy.com and www.openstudy.com: Different namespace for cookies.

We used to have a redirect in place for that. We need to re-implement it. Thanks.

Answer 24

Hooray... I think
so you can fix it now?
(not that I want to lose this ability)

Answer 25

Haha, yeah, it's a server configuration thing. I'll see about getting it fixed.

Answer 26

ok...

Answer 27

Alright, we fixed it on the server. You're golden.

Answer 28

awwww, that's why my other profile stopped working :(
blast your efficiency farm!