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Why do I have to go to a new page to sign in, When I click the Login button why doesnt it dynamically drop down and sign it. I just find it an inconvenience to go to another page to log in

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Why do I have to go to a new page to sign in, When I click the Login button why doesnt it dynamically drop down and sign it. I just find it an inconvenience to go to another page to log in

That's a good question. I can't say for sure but my guess is they probably have thought of it already and decided against it for one reason or another. Perhaps the invision powerboard platform doesn't allow it, I know that was the case with a suggestion I made:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...c=700460&hl

I've been thinking that it would be really cool to have a separate subforum specifically related to improvement ideas. This one is far more general, I feel like if they had one specifically dealing with improvement suggestions the devs might get more involved in the dialog. I'm sure a lot of the same suggestions come up time and time again and are probably consistently discarded for the same reasons. I know the devs are busy but I think if they were more involved it might help answer a lot of questions.

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How often are you signing in? Every forum I've ever visited does it that way. I know Digg and Hulu do the sign-in the way you suggest, but those sites were custom-developed. Neowin doesn't develop its own forum system.

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Why do I have to go to a new page to sign in, When I click the Login button why doesnt it dynamically drop down and sign it. I just find it an inconvenience to go to another page to log in

Can you be a little more precise? What does "why doesnt it dynamically drop down" mean? Why doesn't WHAT dynamically drop down?

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Can you be a little more precise? What does "why doesnt it dynamically drop down" mean? Why doesn't WHAT dynamically drop down?

meaning when you click login, a menu fades in below with the sign in screen.

The reason I sign in is that I use multiple computers and I use all of them to log into neowin and I flush my cache everytime at the end of the day

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The reason I sign in is that I use multiple computers and I use all of them to log into neowin and I flush my cache everytime at the end of the day

So what does that have to do with having a dropdown or a new page? Bookmark the login page and start from there if you must.

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a problem I can see with this is, forums like "Private Forum" is hidden for guests, and would need to load when logged in.

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a problem I can see with this is, forums like "Private Forum" is hidden for guests, and would need to load when logged in.

How exactly would that be a problem? He's talking about the login screen, not viewing forums.

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How exactly would that be a problem? He's talking about the login screen, not viewing forums.

your talking about the login, on the forum main page. If you sign out, you won't see "Private Forum". Once logged in, the entire page would need to reload itself in order for that subforum to be available to you.

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your talking about the login, on the forum main page. If you sign out, you won't see "Private Forum". Once logged in, the entire page would need to reload itself in order for that subforum to be available to you.

It has to do that anyway after you log in. I don't see how this would be any different

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