Login and return to where we started?

February 27, 2003 9:46 AM

This is a very small and unimportant request, but maybe it would be easy to implement. When we login, could we then return to the page we logged in from rather than jump to the main index? Or perhaps get a choice of the two? I only login at work when I want to post; maybe I'm in the minority here.
posted by teenydreams to Feature Requests at 9:46 AM (11 comments total)

I second that emotion. Same sentence as last of teenydreams' only change "work" to "home." Just a little annoyance that could be eradicated with (a large amount of?) coding from Matt...
posted by soyjoy at 10:12 AM on February 27, 2003

Doesn't sound too hard. I guess you could store the referrer in a form variable, and redirect or offer a link back after submission.

Fewer browsers provide referrers than Javascript, but go.history(-2) [or whatever it is] might be easier.
posted by holloway at 10:43 AM on February 27, 2003

holloway: I think go.history my have some cache related issues in some setups, the browser showing the original (not logged in) page. As for referer, that'd work, but wouldn't work for those of us who don't send referers. The best solution would be to have the login link be different on every page, ie "/login/index.cfm?camefrom=/mefi/31415".
posted by fvw at 11:31 AM on February 27, 2003

Ponies for everyone!!! Woohoo!!!

Click twice. Or........ Make more work for Matt.
posted by y6y6y6 at 1:06 PM on February 27, 2003

y6 - what is it about the category "feature requests" that confuses you?
posted by jonson at 1:36 PM on February 27, 2003

Apologies. I am lazy. Click 'back' twice and refresh isn't that hard, and I was too dense to think of it. Matt's work is very much appreciated, even by folks like me with high lurk-to-post ratios.
posted by teenydreams at 1:47 PM on February 27, 2003

I keep misreading "teenydreams" as "teendreams," which sounds like a pron website.
I know: Sounds like a personal problem.
posted by Shane at 1:57 PM on February 27, 2003

"what is it about the category "feature requests" that confuses you?"

I know what the category is for dickwad. Try using your brain.

The thread is asking Matt to recode the login script. He could do that in his copious spare time, and then recode it again after the bug reports. Or we can vote down features that will only save us two mouse clicks after something we hardly ever do anyway.

Is this easy enough for your snarky little pee brain to understand? Where did I say the post was in the wrong category? Should I just ram my head up my ass and shut up when people ask for things I think aren't needed? I don't get an opinion? God forbid I should ever think a feature request is unnecessary.
posted by y6y6y6 at 2:29 PM on February 27, 2003

I know what the category is for dickwad. Try using your brain

Your polite and civilized answer has a) put me in my place, while b) refuting my previous opinions of you. Well done, sir, well done.

Should I just ram my head up my ass and shut up when people ask for things I think aren't needed? I don't get an opinion?

Or your could politely state why you think this specific feature is unncessary. But then you wouldn't be "the scourge of metafilter". Or "a huge dick". Or whatever it is that you are.
posted by jonson at 2:33 PM on February 27, 2003

"Or whatever it is that you are."

I'm a freakin' love god Sparky. You just can't keep up.
posted by y6y6y6 at 2:55 PM on February 27, 2003

My bad. But sparky's some other guy.
posted by jonson at 2:59 PM on February 27, 2003