# Why has logout moved **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477 **Category:** UX **Created:** [September 26, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477 "2020-09-26T20:39:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 7 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477/24 "2020-09-29T00:41:04Z")
That looks fine. Cog is so generic, and that menu is actually pretty important, I don’t want it to be buried under a generic gear which means “settings” or “techy geek stuff”. ---
### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot) #### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477/25 "2020-09-29T02:27:44Z")
Icon updated here: [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ffdcac9dfc93db061d38e9080b99f882cc100225](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ffdcac9dfc93db061d38e9080b99f882cc100225) ---
### Author: ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D) #### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477/26 "2020-09-29T04:08:55Z")
What do you think about, when clicking on the avatar, opening by default the Notifications tab when there are some unread, and the Preferences one when there are not ? ---
### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen) #### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477/27 "2020-09-29T04:29:03Z")
I regularly refer back to notifications, so I wouldn’t find value in the regular extra clicks it would introduce. ---
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477/28 "2020-09-29T19:05:53Z")
Note that this also mirrors what Twitter does: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/9/690985581aca60ebfa94e454ade357278bde3a1a.png) ---
### Author: ![Heather\_Dudley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heather_dudley/32/151925_2.png) [@Heather\_Dudley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Dudley) #### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477/29 "2020-09-29T19:46:08Z")
I support the change. We got a lot of complaints about the original shift, and this is a more intutitive change. When I go to a page to log out, I expect it to be somewhere near the avatar, and find this works more closely to how social media platforms do it. Users are already primed to look for the log out/preferences menu when clicking their avatars. ---
### Author: ![JimPas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimpas/32/148179_2.png) [@JimPas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JimPas) #### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477/30 "2020-09-30T04:11:02Z")
Here’s a logout icon from one of my email providers. It’s the arrow on the right and is separated from the gear (cog) icon by a weird “user” icon (my initials - for support). ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/6/06e676e38523083acfa62662cff6a98da9bd5268.png) [Previous page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477.md?page=1)