diff --git a/app/logical/danbooru/http.rb b/app/logical/danbooru/http.rb
index 590271fe0..8e8655965 100644
--- a/app/logical/danbooru/http.rb
+++ b/app/logical/danbooru/http.rb
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ module Danbooru
         .headers("Accept-Encoding" => "gzip")
         .headers("User-Agent": "#{Danbooru.config.canonical_app_name}/#{Rails.application.config.x.git_hash}")
         .use(:auto_inflate)
-        .use(:retriable)
         .use(redirector: { max_redirects: MAX_REDIRECTS })
         .use(:session)
     end
diff --git a/app/logical/danbooru/http/retriable.rb b/app/logical/danbooru/http/retriable.rb
index 681dd8bbe..23d5e865a 100644
--- a/app/logical/danbooru/http/retriable.rb
+++ b/app/logical/danbooru/http/retriable.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ module Danbooru
 
         retries = max_retries
         while retriable?(response) && retries > 0 && retry_delay(response) <= max_delay
+          DanbooruLogger.info "Retrying url=#{request.uri} status=#{response.status} retries=#{retries} delay=#{retry_delay(response)}"
+
           retries -= 1
           sleep(retry_delay(response))
           response = yield request
diff --git a/app/logical/sources/strategies/nijie.rb b/app/logical/sources/strategies/nijie.rb
index f3a15b576..b2a6fcc7a 100644
--- a/app/logical/sources/strategies/nijie.rb
+++ b/app/logical/sources/strategies/nijie.rb
@@ -180,7 +180,10 @@ module Sources
 
         http = Danbooru::Http.new
         form = { email: Danbooru.config.nijie_login, password: Danbooru.config.nijie_password }
-        response = http.cache(1.hour).post("https://nijie.info/login_int.php", form: form)
+
+        # XXX `retriable` must come after `cache` so that retries don't return cached error responses.
+        response = http.cache(1.hour).use(:retriable).post("https://nijie.info/login_int.php", form: form)
+        DanbooruLogger.info "Nijie login failed (#{url}, #{response.status})" if response.status != 200
         return nil unless response.status == 200
 
         response = http.cookies(R18: 1).cache(1.minute).get(page_url)