Signed in everywhere, including the pages that said otherwise

Several of you saw the header switch between signed in and signed out as a page loaded, and some found notifications, the mentor inbox or mentor requests stuck on loading while everything else said you were signed in. Both came from the same root: two parts of the app answering "is this person signed in?" in two different ways. They now share one answer, decided on the server before the page is sent, so the header and every member page agree from the first paint.

Underneath, a session cookie left over from an earlier sign-in could sit ahead of your current one, and the server kept reading the stale one. It now reads the right one, and there is only one going forward.

Separately, if you were approved years ago but never set up a mentor profile, the site had been telling you your profile was under review and hiding the request button. Approval is about you, not about having a mentor profile, and that is what it checks now.