Logout is NOT broken in OS X Lion either in Chrome (14.0.835.163) or Firefox (6.0), on my machine at least.

However, logout can be extremely slow, and it seems to get slower if you bang on login/logout a lot; HN might have coded in some delays to keep users from slowing the server down.

My guess is, this user just didn't wait long enough for logout to work.

Nope, I'm waiting for the page to refresh on its own. My username stays in the upper right corner the whole time.

I "logged out" between viewing this comment and replying to it.

It's also broken for me on OSX Safari. I don't understand how I can be the only one with this problem on multiple browsers.

If it's hanging in both browsers, could be a network issue... I've occasionally seen paths to some (but not all) websites suffer from hanging HTTP/TCP connections, perhaps due to packet sizing/fragmentation/loss issues.

Does the problem happen for you at another location? Any new local routers/switches/access-points in the local mix? Does another OS on the same network (perhaps even via a VM on OSX) show the same issue?

Notably, when testing this, I discovered that logging out of HN from anywhere logs you out from everywhere. So even using a smartphone to login/logout might be a workaround for getting your OSX login session invalidated. (Of course discarding the browser cookies should work as well for the local browser.)

Hmm. Works for me in Win 7 Chrome. I'd be curious if the issue is related to the login method. I use clickpass with Google.

Trollface he made you all log out and log back in again.

Works fine on fedora 15. Chrome 14 FF 6 Both work fine.

Works for me, Android 3.2 Browser.

Works for me on OSX Chrome 14.

Works for me, OSX chrome.

Works on my iPad.

Works for me, OSX FF7 (beta channel).