Hello, i’m currently achieving a slow re-direct, to avoid need to press the only Login button on the inital page import { apiInitializer } from "discourse/lib/api"; export default apiInitializer("1.0", (api) => { api.onPageChange((url) => { const user = api.getCurrentUser(); let path =…

[image] Ethsim2: to avoid need to press the only Login button on the inital page Pretty sure Discourse is already doing that for you. If it’s not working, then something’s wrong with your setup :thinking:

Hmm, I see a login button you need to click first here: [Screenshot_20260417_184223_Firefox] But I never was annoyed by that. I don’t think being taken to an input form without seeing where you are would be a better experience. There is less knformation about where you are here: [Screenshot2026…

Yeah, most login-required sites benefit from having that landing screen. For example, they’ll have signup / login buttons if signups are available. And a place to describe the community before showing the form. We do offer skipping this screen in one narrow use case: when the site has only one exte…

[IMG7114] turns out that setting was enabled on https://physicswithethan.discourse.diy so i’ve not changed any settings since before starting this topic

Disable initial page that re-directs to /login

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zogstrip April 17, 2026, 4:48pm 4

Right I forgot we edge-cased the “home-page”… All the other pages should immediately show the login page instead. Maybe it should be a setting

@pmusaraj do you remember why we edge-cased the home page?

How do i change “Welcome Back” on /login

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Disable initial page that re-directs to /login

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