Feature request: Persistent authentication

Olaf.Rabbachin

I definitely need to get back to reviewing my additional vocabulary again, which I stopped soon after Memrise dumped the Community Courses.
So last week I started using MLWL on my cell, found out there was an Android app (I assume it's a browser app rather than a native app?), installed it and logged in. However, it seems that I have to log in every time I start the app. That's pretty … suboptimal. :-)

So, @neoncube, what do you think about implementing persistent or sliding authentication?
Or am I just missing something ..?

neoncube

Olaf.Rabbachin Ooh, interesting! I'd added high-resolution icons in case someone pinned My Little Word Land to their home screen like this, but I'd never actually tried it out! 🙂

Indeed, it's a browser app 🙂

I found a thread hinting that the issue might be that Android web apps only sync their cookies once every five minutes: https://github.com/react-native-webview/react-native-webview/issues/2643#issuecomment-1870161445

I tried out a few things:

If I log in and then immediately close and reopen the app, I'm still logged in.
If I log in, close the app for more than five minutes, then open the app again, I'm logged out.
If I log in, leave the app running for more than five minutes, then close and reopen the app, I'm still logged in.

Can you try logging in and keeping the app open for more than five minutes and see if that makes your session persistent? That might be a good workaround for the moment 🙂

And thanks for letting me know that it's even possible to do this, haha XD This is really cool 🙂

Olaf.Rabbachin

Well, spent around 8mins today, closed the app and I was still logged in after opening it again. I'll see what happens later today or tomorrow!

Olaf.Rabbachin

By the way - is there a simple way for you to set all my courses to "completely learned"?

neoncube

Olaf.Rabbachin Not at the moment, but I should add that 🙂

I remember there was another thread asking for the ability to perform bulk actions on vocabulary, and I think that's a great idea! 🙂