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Approving comments on-page fails

By Michael Lynch @michael
    2026-01-04 13:56:28.371Z

    I'm seeing failures from TalkYard when I try to moderate comments on this page:

    https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/#comment-2

    I'm logged in as admin, but when I try to approve comments, I get this:

    Error 403

    Please log out and log in, to get a complete session id —
    this endpoint, /-/moderate-from-page, requires the HttpOnly part of the session id [TyEWEAKSID_]

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    1. Michael Lynch @michael
        2026-01-04 13:59:41.448Z

        Something's wonky with my session. It shows I'm logged in on the on-post comments:

        But the "Admin" link is broken, as it points to https://refactoringenglish.com/-/admin/review

        My profile links to https://site-1luhlxy7n7.talkyard.net/-/users/mtlynch/activity/posts but that shows me as not logged in:

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          Michael Lynch @michael
            2026-01-04 14:01:58.533Z

            I was able to moderate via https://site-1luhlxy7n7.talkyard.net/-/admin/review

            I'm also noticing that my domain has switched from my previous https://comments-for-refactoringenglish.talkyard.net to https://site-1luhlxy7n7.talkyard.net

            Is that intentional?

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            1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2026-01-05 10:10:26.287Z

              my domain has switched from my previous https://comments-for-refactoringenglish.talkyard.net to https://site-1luhlxy7n7.talkyard.net

              Yes and no. Google Chrome sometimes thinks that comments-for-some-website.talkyard.net is too similar to some-website.com and shows a phishing warning. And I think it happens more often to people who visit one's site infrequently, so it's not easy to know how often it happens. That's why I switched all new sites to https://site-<site-public-id>.talkyard.net. (But if you're admin, Chrome knows you've visited the embedded domain already so I think it doesn't show any warning.)

              But this change affected you now, and not say 1 year ago, hmm I'm not sure. You didn't happen to make some configuration changes on your side recently? I think it was some month(s) ago I upgraded the server last time.

              I can write some changelogs for the recent versions, so I'll better remember what has changed. (Didn't do last half a year or so)

              Sorry for the confusing error messages and surprising new address. (Blog visitors shouldn't see this address, unless they inspect the HTML)

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              1. Michael Lynch @michael
                  2026-01-05 10:27:01.283Z

                  I don't believe I made config changes recently. I don't get a lot of comments on that site, so it may have been a while since I last approved a comment there.

                  Comment approval still works as expected on mtlynch.io.

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                  1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2026-01-05 12:19:27.114Z

                    Ok,

                    Comment approval still works as expected on mtlynch.io.

                    That's because you use a custom domain: https://comments.mtlynch.io rather than using Talkyard's auto-generated comments-for-... (which now instead is site-123456789).

                    Maybe I should change the instructions so everyone is recommended to use a custom domain (e.g. comments.ones-own-domain.com). Because these site-123456789.talkyard.net addresses look pretty weird, right. And Google Chrome's algorithms for figuring out if a site is maybe a phishing "clone" of another, seem unpredictably trigger happy.

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                    1. Michael Lynch @michael
                        2026-01-05 20:00:45.725Z

                        Okay, thanks! I switched to comments.refactoringenglish.com, but I'm still seeing issues.

                        The "Admin" and "Discussions index" links are broken:

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                        1. KajMagnus @KajMagnus2026-01-06 05:28:59.629Z

                          Ooops, looks like regression(s), I'll have a look

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