# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 15
### 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 28, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477/15 "2020-09-28T19:01:05Z")
Why it moved is covered here: > [@Please make user settings easier for users to find](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-make-user-settings-easier-for-users-to-find/161334): > > I’ve been experimenting with Discourse for two weeks, and I’ve always struggled to find the user settings page until just now. Apparently I’m supposed to click my photo (in the upper-right corner), then click the small “person” button next to my name, and then I’m shown a menu of choices: summary, activity…preferences. Before this, for the last two weeks, I was madly clicking around and navigating backward and resorting to browser history. I previously had gotten to user settings accidentally… The main reason is that we had reports that it was unclear your username was a clickable button, which lead to people having a hard time finding log out and their preferences specifically. I haven’t heard of many issues with discovering the clickable tabs in the menu, so going that way seemed best. I agree that the gear icon isn’t the best representation of everything under the menu (would a user icon be clearer? I’m a little skeptical). The gear icon is very clear for preferences of course, and it’s not unusual for other sites to put the log out link under a gear icon either (Facebook is one common example). --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-has-logout-moved/165477)._