God I hate this! Never fails, either. I’d be on a page of someone’s profile or some piece of content I’d like to see but I’m required to log in. Okay, I will do so. So I do and it doesn’t redirect me back! It just puts me in the front page, like no thanks, just bring me to where I was!
Went to hackernews the other day. Tried to upvote a comment, then it asked me to login. Put in my login, hit the button, and boom, it redirected back to the original page, and the comment I was attempting to upvote is successfully upvoted! I was expecting I’ll need to press the upvote button again, but I don’t even need to do that. My mind was blown. Wish more websites do this.
This is really how all sites should work.
It’s a great predictor of how the rest of your interaction with a site will go. If a dev doesn’t have the space and motivation to give a shit about details like this, they’ll cut corners on other shit too. It doesn’t always mean they’re bad developers; more often they’re just rushed.
Login to see content? Throw it in reverse meme
Yeah that’s almost always going to be a hard pass from me lol
There’s always an XKCD
do you happen to have one of those no tracking link browser extensions? I’ve had a few of those remove the redirect from the log in page url
I use Firefox so maybe their built in stuff is doing it for me.
I prefer having to logout to see content.
Oh my god it’s fucking horrible. And so straightforward to fix.
- oh noes! unauthorized!
- store current path in a session variable
- redirect to authentication
- upon successful authentication, check if that session variable’s got a path in it
- if it does, redirect to that
Yep, infuriating. It just happened with me. Googled something, followed a link to a website. I couldn’t see images on forum lthread there without registering. So I register, that of course takes me to the home page on the forum instead.