New user directed to /top/all, not first item in top menu

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I (and a client) would expect that after clicking the “activate my account” button the user would be redirected to the same place that https://site.com/ takes you, but instead it takes them to /top/all. Is there some setting for this that I’m not aware of?

Or is this a bug?

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New users and users who haven’t been seen for a long time get one-time redirected to /top yes. There should be a message at the top of the page when this happens; @zogstrip orginally wrote the feature. Regression maybe?

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It’s a site setting

redirect users to top page (Automatically redirect new and long absent users to the top page.)

(default enabled)

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Thanks @david!

I don’t understand how this is a feature.

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See

https://meta.discourse.org/t/as-a-new-user-back-button-takes-me-back-to-top/17338/4?u=codinghorror

It is the difference between

Hail new user, and well met! Here is a list of our latest bullcrap!

and

Hail new user, and well met! Here is a list of the very best things this community has produced in the last year!

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I like this feature. And there is indeed a notice at the top of the one time /top view with eg “here’s the top topics from this past year” or some such. I am paraphrasing from memory.

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