Logging In Inconvenience

[ng12345]

Something that was an issue with the old anandtech forums and is still an issue:

if I am reading a thread when not logged in, and decide to log in -- I get bumped back to the main forum instead of getting logged in and staying on the thread I was reading

It is a minor annoyance --- but one I believe should be fixed.

my workaround:
1. log in
2. click back button
3. refresh thread

 

[kukyfrope]

Yeah, I agree.

Should be easy enough... pass the catid, threadid and startpage to the login form through session or cookie, then pluck them after successful login and do a forward in the header back to the page they were looking at.

 

[BOLt]

Originally posted by: kukyfrope
Yeah, I agree.

Should be easy enough... pass the catid, threadid and startpage to the login form through session or cookie, then pluck them after successful login and do a forward in the header back to the page they were looking at.

Took me a couple of reads due to the creative descriptors, but yeah that makes sense. Certainly a minor change but it avoids headaches.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Yes please redirect on login.
Other forum software does this.
It kinda sucks to have to navigate back to the thread you were reading before you decided to log in.

 

[ng12345]

looks like a few people want this -- any thoughts from the mods or whoever is in charge?