Disable initial page that re-directs to /login

[Ethsim2 (Ethan)]

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 = url?.startsWith("http") ? new URL(url).pathname : url;
    path = path?.replace(/\/+$/, "") || "/";

    const allowedAnonPaths = ["/login", "/privacy", "/tos", "/pub/about-this-forum", "/safe-mode", "/pub/accessibility-statement"];

    if (!user && !allowedAnonPaths.includes(path)) {
      window.location.href = "/login";
    }
  });
});

this excludes paths where i don’t want traffic to be re-directed from.

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This isn’t ideal, but is currently in use on https://physicswithethan.discourse.diy

[zogstrip]

@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

[Moin]

Hmm, I see a login button you need to click first here:

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:

[zogstrip]

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?

[pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj)]

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 external login method, via this setting:

[Ethsim2 (Ethan)]

turns out that setting was enabled on https://physicswithethan.discourse.diy

so i’ve not changed any settings since before starting this topic