# Say "welcome back" \*after\* login

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/say-welcome-back-after-login/262413>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [April 20, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/say-welcome-back-after-login/262413 "2023-04-20T15:25:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![jidanni](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jidanni/32/291938_2.png) [@jidanni](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jidanni)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/say-welcome-back-after-login/262413/1 "2023-04-20T15:25:03Z")

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The user sees the login button,

 ![Screenshot_20230420-231524_1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/5/2/952e4bab03f2df3eb65d7c4bd05f93a26a6ef25e.jpeg)

The user presses it.

 ![Screenshot_20230420-230105_1_1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/1/6/b16c755213b9106bc7169c4d751268c0f039e24e.jpeg)

The user sees “welcome back.”

He’s very happy that he is now logged in. It must work just like on Facebook, Google, etc where you don’t even have to enter your password because it remembers you from before… (They just weren’t sure if you really wanted to log in today so had you do that one click formality.) How clever and modern.

But wait. What’s that in a fine print.. Aw… we haven’t actually logged in yet.

Anyway just the other day I was on Stack Exchange and it said something like welcome back but that’s only after it was sure it knew who it was talking to. You don’t just go saying welcome back to strangers do you now?

Okay, I just tested it with a fresh browser. I’m certain it didn’t even have one little cookie of mine. But it still said welcome back.

It’s like a drunk bartender who thinks everybody’s been there before. Or like at some hippie Rainbow Gathering Welcome Center where everybody in the world are all Brothers and Sisters.

Anyway, Google and Facebook don’t say such friendly things until they’re sure who they are talking to.

Anyway, we are not entering some new state. We still are working on trying to log in. It’s just that some distraction has been thrown up making us sit up and think for about 20 seconds about what is going on.

Also note I’m not discussing any one particular Discourse site.

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