From what I’ve heard from a friend, I believe it’s a caching issue. Pretty sure logging out and logging back in will fix the issue.
I’m guessing the outage happened between 0-6am? I wouldn’t of tried accessing DevForum during that time, so I don’t honestly know how some users have it and others don’t.
Funnily enough, the icon for @system isn’t showing (nvm is now)
i tried changing the description of an account i got logged into (just to see if it actually worked, i was gonna revert it afterwards) and it just said “unauthorized” or another error code, so no, you can’t mess with their account
You still don’t seem to understand the issue that happened. People were not logged into other people’s accounts.
If someone visited the devforum, any GET request could be cached only if that user themselves triggered that request. If any other user subsequently did a GET on the same URL, they may have gotten the cached content of the first user.
It wasn’t possible to freely browse the forum and all user info as another user. The user themselves would have had to trigger the cache to take effect on all of the pages (by explicitly visiting them).
I don’t think “downloading user data” is a single GET, you fire a POST to trigger the workload and then it is sent to you later for download. So it’s impossible for this to have been affected by the cache issue, since you weren’t actually logged in as the user.