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> the landing page of GitHub annoys the shit out of me. Every damn time. I don't wanna register with three clicks if I already have an account. ? If you're no
by ralph84 5y ago
> the landing page of GitHub annoys the shit out of me. Every damn time. I don't wanna register with three clicks if I already have an account.
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If you're not signed in, `Sign in` is available on literally every page in the upper right and one click takes you to the sign in box. If one click is too many just bookmark github.com/login.
If you don't want to sign in the search box is also in the upper right on every page to take you wherever you want to go.
- injidup 5y agoIt is expected that if you are logged in you stay logged in. Only a minority of users clear all their cookies at the end of every session. Sorry but that is true. Thus the landing page is optimised for the most common visitor, that is the one with no account yet, not the loudest complainer on a tech geek forum.
- cookiengineer 5y ago> just bookmark github.com/login This will make me be detected as a bot and I see captchas everywhere afterwards. I was using that for a while. A better alternative would be content identity through URLs. If your marketing page is at github.com/index.html, then make something like github.com/dashboard.html for logged in users, and redirect them to /login.html when they are required to be logged in. This way users can easily bookmark the page that they actually want to see.
- dreamcompiler 5y agoGithub already has my public ssh key so I can push/pull/clone without typing a password. Why the heck don't they support ssl client authentication so the same thing works when I use a browser? SSL client certs are an actual thing yet no web site I have ever seen uses them. Why?