I can has login pony?

July 24, 2007 3:40 PM

Smart logins: It's been mentioned before and didn't quite happen. Matt, can you please just sit down and do this instead of redirecting to the front page? If I'm on a page I want to [comment on/flag/favorite] I [am too lazy to/don't want to/will explode if you make me] use the back button to go back to the original page.
posted by kyleg to feature requests at 3:40 PM (37 comments total)

Sure, if by "Matt" you mean "pb". I second this suggestion!

ON PREVIEW: I third it!
posted by Eideteker at 3:47 PM on July 24, 2007

(if by "ON PREVIEW" you mean "by my careful statistical projections which despite taking me several minutes to compute using the latest cellular automata-assisted computational methods, will nonetheless turn out to be wrong")
posted by Eideteker at 3:48 PM on July 24, 2007

Don't people just stay logged in all the time?

*Tries to parse the idea of not being logged into Metafilter*

*Fails*
posted by quin at 4:07 PM on July 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

Yeah Matt, sit your ass down and get it done. Who the hell do you think you are.
posted by BorgLove at 4:08 PM on July 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

I, for one, do stay logged in all the time, but happen to be on my fiancee's laptop. Otherwise I surely woud have noticed it sooner, and posted about it.
posted by kyleg at 4:09 PM on July 24, 2007

This seems to be overstepping a line between request and demand. Sounds like a good feature though.

But forget all that-- I don't log out either, so I don't care. All I really care about is the sandwich that Matt was supposed to make for me ten minutes ago, which I have yet to see. I bet he forgot the mayo again, too.
posted by Tehanu at 4:19 PM on July 24, 2007

The good news is, this is actually trivial: on any particular content thread, make sure the current non-domain part of that page's URL is printed as a query string variable, then on the login page, redirect to that variable if the login is successful.

That does, of course, assume he has the time and wants to do this.

And for the love of all that is holy, vet the value of the query string value so that nobody can do XSSing.
posted by davejay at 4:23 PM on July 24, 2007

Also: tehanu, make your own damn sandwich.
posted by davejay at 4:24 PM on July 24, 2007

Matt, I dropped off my trousers this morning and I expect them to be hemmed, cleaned and pressed by 9 AM, pronto!
posted by mds35 at 4:25 PM on July 24, 2007

I guess kyleg feels pretty strongly about his matter.

Tehanu, yea, he forgot the damn mayo on mine too. Matt, why do we keep having to remind you? This sucks.
posted by snsranch at 4:29 PM on July 24, 2007

I know you guys already know this, but kylegs talking about a re-direct to the original page from which he did some action, not auto log in or something as his links suggest. And stuff or whatever.
posted by snsranch at 4:34 PM on July 24, 2007

Yeah Matt, sit your ass down and get it done. Who the hell do you think you are.

See, you'll never get anywhere using mealy-mouth expressions like this, you need to up the ante. If you want to see results, you need to use the proper phrasing such as; 'sit your fat ass down', and 'who the fuck do you think you are?'

Ideally you should through a couple of 'you lazy shit' and 'WTF, I paid for this site',

That will guarantee some kind of action.
posted by quin at 4:36 PM on July 24, 2007

I already do this. Are you using an extension that blocks http referrers?
posted by mathowie at 4:36 PM on July 24, 2007

In the previous MeTa threads where this came up, mathowie himself says that, "There are a handful of little tweaks I need to do that require just sitting down and doing them." kyleg isn't being demanding, he's just using mathowie's own words.

And for those of you who say you never log out, maybe it's time to pony up another $5 and get yourselves some sockpuppets.
posted by carsonb at 4:36 PM on July 24, 2007

I already do this.

Verified. Worked for me!
posted by carsonb at 4:39 PM on July 24, 2007

carsonb, I'm glad you cleared that up, I thought I smelled a mob brewing.

Matt, I'm using a straight Fire Fox rig and when I comment, flag, favorite, I have to hit back space a couple time to get back to where I was. I think that's what he's talking about.
posted by snsranch at 4:42 PM on July 24, 2007

carsonb, please thank your former teachers for your skills at reading comprehension. My phrasing was totally stolen from the second link.

Matt (and any others that may be confused), what's happening is that if I'm in a thread, I want to be taken directly back to it after I login. Say there's an AskMe I want to favorite or comment in, so I click the login link at the top or bottom of the page. After it logs me in, the page redirects to the front page of the blue. In my perfect world (the only one that matters), I would be sent back to the page where I clicked on the login link.

Supposedly what I'm asking for is already in effect; could there be a cookie issue here? I've tried with Firefox (toggled Adblock on and off) and IE, and keep getting the same result.
posted by kyleg at 5:15 PM on July 24, 2007

huh? Does the Ajax flagging not work?
posted by mathowie at 5:18 PM on July 24, 2007

I was wondering about that as well, I'm also using an unmodified Firefox, and I can comment, flag, and favorite without having to go back at all.

/Confused.
posted by quin at 5:29 PM on July 24, 2007

Matt, it's not the ajax. It's when I'm using a different computer that I'm not logged into. If I have to login to do something, I want to be able to do it with the minimal amount of clicking. I don't want to have to use the back button or go searching again for the thread I wanted to comment in or favorite.
posted by kyleg at 5:29 PM on July 24, 2007

tehanu, you forgot to say sudo make me a sandwich. Makes all the diff.
posted by Wolfdog at 5:30 PM on July 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

I'll set up a test page later tonight to see if referrers are ignored on your browser
posted by mathowie at 5:36 PM on July 24, 2007

Wait, there are two questions here

1. kyleg's login redirect thing.

2. snsranch's lack of ajaxability on flagging and whatnot which is mysterious to me. snsranch, what happens when you click the little flag thing on a MeFi post/comment, do you get a little dropdown menu appearing?
posted by jessamyn at 5:36 PM on July 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

NEVAR LOG OUT!
posted by klangklangston at 5:39 PM on July 24, 2007

kyleg, is your fiancee running the latest version of firefox?

And just to be clear, your missing feature is one that most of us already enjoy. What about your fiancee's laptop would keep you from enjoying it too?
posted by carsonb at 5:50 PM on July 24, 2007

Jessamyn, yes I get the drop and it's fine. I'm very far away from what kyleg is talking about. Sorry to have infused any confusion.
posted by snsranch at 5:51 PM on July 24, 2007

So, snsranch...what are you talking about? Just curious. Do you still have to use the back button to return to a comment you just favorited?
posted by carsonb at 5:55 PM on July 24, 2007

carsonb, no. I have my head up my ass. I was thinking about how after commenting it returns to the empty comment box instead of the post header or most recent comment.
posted by snsranch at 6:22 PM on July 24, 2007

I have my head up my ass.

If only more people could admit to this, the site might be so much more civil.

I'll second it. I have my head up my ass.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 6:52 PM on July 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

There's a damn good possibility I have my head up my ass. I'd be sure, but I think might I have my head up my ass.
posted by carsonb at 6:55 PM on July 24, 2007

I have my head up my ass.

If only more people could admit to this, the site might be so much more civil.

*Shrugs*

Ok, I have my head up your ass.

See. Now we both feel uncomfortable and it's an awkward moment for everyone.
posted by quin at 6:55 PM on July 24, 2007 [2 favorites]

Please cop up-ass-headery?
posted by cortex at 6:57 PM on July 24, 2007

If you click this link, you should see a URL for this thread, if it is blank, something on your setup is blocking referrers. Maybe it's a norton/mcaffee internet security app running?
posted by mathowie at 7:12 PM on July 24, 2007

Reading this thread left me imaging Mathowie in his server room room waving his arms directing the traffic (yellow vest and paddles, like the airplane landing guys). There's a page request from carsonb and Matt just waves it on to where it's headed. Oh but there's one from kyleg and Matt's arms fly up 'halt!' and those page requests get redirected back to the start.

Yeah, not helpful I know. But it kept me amused for a while.
posted by shelleycat at 7:14 PM on July 24, 2007

A little to the leeeft, no to the riiight, there it is, URL, right where it belongs.
posted by snsranch at 7:21 PM on July 24, 2007

Yup, it's blank. Must be this Norton thing that I never noticed before now. Stupid unfamiliar computers.

Sorry for inadvertently inferring you might be a lazy admin, Matt. Things work normally on flickr, so I assumed they'd perform like I expected them to here as well, though obviously the code is different and gets parsed in a different way.

Before this thread gets closed, I want everyone to know how much of a pain it is to post about login issues when the L key only works a third of the time with a good hard slam of the finger. Guess it's time to get her a new computer that works as well as I think it should.
posted by kyleg at 7:26 PM on July 24, 2007

Well, good to know we figured it out.
posted by mathowie at 7:45 PM on July 24, 2007