Comment by blinker21
3 months ago
I've hit this over the past week browsing the web UI. For some reason, github sessions are set really short and you don't realise you're not logged in until you get the error message.
I really wish github would stop logging me out.
Hmmmm, Github keeps me logged in for months I feel like. Unless I'm misunderstanding the github security logs, my current login is since march.
GH is Microsoft's most successful social network.
GH now uses the publisher business model, and as such, they lose money when you're logged out. same reason why google, fb, etc will not ask you for a password for decades.
Something strange is going on. I think GH has kept me logged in for months at a time. I honestly can’t remember the last time I had to authenticate.
Yes, it's not the rate limits that are the problem per se but GitHub's tendency to log you out and make you go through 2fa.
If they would let me stay logged in for a year then I wouldn't care so much.
You might be afflicted with some SSO or enterprise thing, I haven't logged into Github on my personal account in years.
Nope, just normal GitHub account.
Though GitHub did force me to use 2fa earlier because they said I have a "popular repo", so perhaps my account is considered high risk. Or maybe it's triggered by travelling and changing IP locations? I have no clue, but it's annoying to have to 2fa more than once in a blue moon.