A click too many: logging out

Yes. I support making log out visible on the first panel of the user menu.

I don’t logout as I only access Discourse from my own devices but I hate the current placement because it is at least one more step than every other forum and app that I use.

This has been an unresolved issue for years and may be described as a difference of opinion, e.g.

But applying the “god login” approach to the log out issue suggests to me that this proposal is the better solution. If Discourse doesn’t know when I want to log out then it should at least assume I want to when I display my user menu.

I know that there is a keyboard shortcut for desktop users but that doesn’t help if I’m temporarily forced to use a mobile device that is not my own.

While talking about combining the hamburger and user menus, we see @codinghorror showing log out on the first appearance of user menu. It just looks right to me.

You might say it is at the same position that it now has in the current second level panel. The problem is the extra level to find it.

And there appears to be space for log out on the first panel.

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