Login Modal not shown when login page is accessed directly in a private forum

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

@jomaxro

This doesn’t sound intentional to me.

This is intentional as per:

Login Popup doesn't work for private Discourse instance

Because in case of login required forums /login page is their homepage which is there to give anonymous users more information about the community they want access to, and how to get access. In case of public forums since the forum is open, anonymous user directly sees what the community is all about via /latest or /categories page, so /login page doesn’t makes sense and we show login modal instead. Also, in case of login required forums, some Admins want to further customize their /login pa…

Should we create a new site setting to control this behaviour or just make login modal show consistently for normal and “login required” sites alike?