Is Discourse supposed to log you out across browsers?

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I was a bit surprised today as I was doing some testing. When I logged out from meta.discourse.org in my Chrome browser, I got logged out of meta.discourse.org in my Safari session as well. Also works the other way, as well as on a mobile browser.

Is this intended behaviour? it strikes me as quite odd. I don’t know of any other web app that does this.

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Have you seen this topic? You’re looking for the site setting “log out strict”. IMHO this should not be checked by default…

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Safety is the default, remember.

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Yes, but it is configurable using the site setting “log out strict”

I am thinking we should maybe look at adding a “transitionary” logout screen that allows end users to pick their poison.

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Would be a good idea since logout is so rare anyway an additional dialog is no big deal.

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Mocked

(both would be in a modal)

.btn-huge {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    display:inline-flex;
    flex-direction:column;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    vertical-align:middle;
}
.btn-huge i.fa {
    display:block;
    text-align:center;
    margin-right:0;
    margin-bottom: 7px;
}

The btn-huge style I just created seems like a good thing to have anyways (which is why I made it).

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“This device” not computer. Also I would say “Log me out everywhere” versus “Log me out on this device only” etc. Probably only the exceptional case should use fa-alert.

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btn-huge looks really bad and not like a button.

I would simply display a modal with:

[ ] Log me out everywhere

[Log Out] [Cancel]

Choosing between two buttons is confusing, a checkbox that clearly explains what will happen is desirable.

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Yeah, you’re probably right :laughing:

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If you like the safety first rule applied here too, maybe the logout everywhere shout contain a countdown “(in 10s…)” just to make sure.