The recent change that were made to the way Varnish handles cookies has caused it to reject logins if there is not a valid 'ljloggedin' cookie, whereas the client protocol only passes the 'ljsession' cookie to LiveJournal. We're in the process of changing this so that the login attempts sent with an 'ljsession' cookie will be considered valid ( Read more... )

Release 86 is out and those who use certain browser extensions to log into Livejournal are finding themselves unable to do so. Also, several users are finding that they are logged out randomly between redirect screens on the site. I'm guessing that these are related. A staff member commented in the release 86 post that something was changed in the ( Read more... )

I've just discovered that I can't get any challenges anymore in my LJ client. I get an error response saying that I did not specify a mode. But until ten minutes ago, everything was working fine...

( Telnet session in here )