# How my members see the site
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [8월 11, 2016, 12:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497 "2016-08-11T12:48:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@jamesmarkcook](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamesmarkcook)
#### Post date: [8월 11, 2016, 12:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497/1 "2016-08-11T12:48:56Z")
I think it would be nice to add to the ‘Impersonate’ feature of the site.
I’m imagining a switch in the hamburger menu titled something like ‘Turn off Admin view’ that allows you to instantly see the site how a non-admin user sees it, _without_ logging you out, and obviously without making that switch disappear.
Is this easily doable or would it be a lot of work?
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [8월 11, 2016, 12:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497/2 "2016-08-11T12:57:04Z")
Ah, but which groups is your non-admin view a member of?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [8월 11, 2016, 12:58오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497/3 "2016-08-11T12:58:40Z")
You can already impersonate any user. From profile, click admin and then impersonate. You’ve got to log out to change back to yourself. For your purposes, you should probably just add another account and log into it in another browser or an incognito window.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [8월 11, 2016, 1:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497/4 "2016-08-11T13:04:24Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> add another account and log into it in an incognito window
This is what I do, ftr
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [8월 11, 2016, 2:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497/5 "2016-08-11T14:54:52Z")
This is true, but it only works for developer accounts that match the email in the `app.yml` file.
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### Author:  [@jamesmarkcook](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamesmarkcook)
#### Post date: [8월 11, 2016, 3:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497/6 "2016-08-11T15:01:09Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> You can already impersonate any user.
> [@jamesmarkcook](#):
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> I think it would be nice to add to the ‘Impersonate’ feature of the site.
I already know about the Impersonate feature, hence my opening sentence.
My suggestion was an addition to this functionality. Something like a quick switch that lets you see the differences in 2 seconds rather than having to navigate to user profiles, clicking ‘Impersonate’, and then logging back out and back in again.
Don’t get me wrong, Impersonate has it’s place to view the site with a much more granular level of permissions. However…
> [@Tom\_Newsom](#):
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> Ah, but which groups is your non-admin view a member of?
This could be a drop down list. But my initial thought was just to turn off all _admin_ views. Things like hidden posts, the Staff category etc.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [8월 11, 2016, 8:24오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-my-members-see-the-site/48497/7 "2016-08-11T20:24:48Z")
Oh. I didn’t know that.
A quick switch is sounding like a good idea.