Every time I try to login to , if I click the “login” button in the top bar, I am immideately returned to the page I came from without being logged in.  I also have tried to sign up, but the same thing happens - after I click the “Sign up using Google” button, I am returned to the page I was on before.
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Here are the steps to reproduce this problem:   Be on a device where I am not logged-in to a meta site. Go to the main *.stackexchange.com site - Everything seems to work fine. Go to the meta.*.stackexchange.com site and click log in in the title bar - Page just refreshes without logging in. WTF?   Here is the workaround I have found to work:   Go to main *.stackexchange.com site and click on help=>meta Click through  about the . Log-in works.   I'm not fussy about whether my connection to SE is encrypted.  However, I do care that this problem created a barrier to my participation in meta.*.stackexchange.com.  I cared and knew enough to poke at this thing for five minutes and find a workaround so I could vote on a .  I doubt, however, that this is the case for most users.  It concerns me that participation in meta is being filtered by a technical problem.    I use chrome as my browser, and my google account to authenticate.  The problem exists on both Travel and English se.com on both a Windows 7 and 8.1 machine.     seems similar.  However, the symptoms are different in two ways: In my case no login page is ever presented, and I'm not using OpenID.
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Per the title, where is the logout button?  All the existing questions I can find refer to the previous design of the site, where hovering over your name in the top bar brought up a menu.
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I am wondering why a user who has SE accounts in several sites has to login to each site separately?   I understand the logic behind not creating a SE account on all SE sites and having separate sign-up procedure for each site.  But why am I required to login separately (or as is the case, I get logged in after I open a site and then asked to refresh page) into each page?  I also understand that one person may have different accounts across the SE sites.  What I am asking is why not login one account of a person into all the sites in which (s)he is a member of using that account?  This is not about 1. Signing up (at all) 2. Feature-request (maybe changed depending on answer)
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Update: Universal login is in place and considered &quot;done&quot;. If you see anything weird, please submit new bug reports.   As y'all know, our current flavor of &quot;global authentication&quot; leaves a few things to be desired. It's flaky, requires a page refresh, etc. etc. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just sign in once and be automatically logged in across the network?  We are ready to roll out Stage 1 of Project &quot;Make Authentication Suck Less&quot;. It is live as of a few minutes ago. What this means right now:  When you log into any Q&amp;A site on the stackexchange.com domain, you will be automatically logged into all other Q&amp;A sites on the stackexchange.com domain + stackexchange.com itself.   is excluded from this.   , , and other Q&amp;A sites with their own domains will still use the old flow.  We are going to recognize you in some ways on sites where you don't have a profile. This is still a work in progress, but most notably you will see &quot;join this community&quot; in the top bar instead of &quot;sign up&quot; and &quot;log in&quot;.   But I use multiple accounts! What do? We aren't intending to break the ability to run multiple accounts. The same guidelines as before still apply — we don't officially support that, you might end up with an accidental automatic merge if you're not careful with your credentials, any interaction between the accounts is right out, and so on. If you're already using different browsers or different browser profiles for your accounts, nothing will change for you. If you are somehow logged into multiple accounts in the same browser... I'm sorry to say, but that's a bug even for our current global auth setup. You will now only be able to log into one at a time, and you'll need to log out when you want to switch. (Or start using different browsers.) What's next:  Remember  we tested a few months ago? It's coming back. Stage 2: bring other domains into the fold (this is also live now) Stage 3: make cross-domain experience smoother and support browsers that reject third-party cookies in all conditions (looking at you, Safari) - this is not currently feasible. Safari users and users who reject third-party cookies will need to sign in separately to every second-level domain (e.g. stackexchange.com, stackoverflow.com, etc).  If you see any issues… Good luck, because you probably can't log in to report them here. =) But seriously, let us know via the contact form linked at the bottom of any page. If you are able to log in, report issues here on meta as normal. So, in conclusion…
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I've seen this behavior on multiple meta sites, for example:        As soon as you choose to add a new login (To be honest I only tried Google, Facebook and the OpenId box), you get redirected to a 404 page at [meta site url]/users/authenticate. .  In my opinion, since when trying to login (i.e. first time login) on a meta site it redirects to the login page of its main, the "Add more logins" page on meta should also redirect to its main "add more logins" page. I think this would just make it more consistent.
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This is absolutely unacceptable.  I logged in to my StackOverflow on a shared work computer. After logging out, no matter what I do, I am automatically logged back in whenever someone visits 'log in'->'Log in with Stack Exchange'  THERE IS NO OPTION TO ENTER LOGIN CREDENTIALS. Just '...' then I'm logged in.  I've looked through all the preferences and found no way to permanently log out. I've cleared cookies and rebooted the browser but the only solution is to restart the computer and wait a few minutes.   I'm all for usability over configuration, but is this for real?  Just thinking of all the computers I've logged in to SO on that could be divulging my private information is unnerving. This could be a massive security problem!  Why on earth would there be an unconditional autologin feature?  Someone bring me to clarity before I melt.
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Being at  I enter a desired username (without @gmail.com which is supposed), and I get error:     "That username is taken. Try another."   But when I try to login into Google with that xxx@gmail.com at  it fails with:     "Sorry, Google doesn't recognise that email."   How that can be?  P.S.: I want that username still.
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EDIT Dec 4 -  We're doing it live! Please post bugs or concerns as questions tagged [top-bar]  We have rolled out our 95% completed top bar for feedback.  Note:   We are still adding a few final features, so if you have a request for a feature that is not there you might hold off on that for a day or two Yes, the bar is black1. Also give that a day or two to sink in.   I also want to specifically address the meta/main/chat links.  I'm very aware that many of you like having the links at the top of the page and that this new version is different.  The thought process behind moving these links is that the "site switcher" should be an automatic place to go when you are on a site and want to go to another one. If you haven't already developed the muscle memory for these links, getting between them required a bit of a cognitive load: You must first decide that you want to switch sites and then you have to decide which area to go to to switch.  Also, we find that less familiar users aren't entirely clear what a standalone link that says "main" or "meta" actually does... Not to mention that it hurts my UX sensibilities that we are dynamically changing links in an element that should be fixed.  It is true that we have added a click in the process, but we have also removed a lot of clicks for other common actions that are much more frequent than switching between main and meta.  All I ask is that you give it a few days and see if the new "switch sites at the top left" paradigm grows on you.  What do you think?  1.  points out that technically it's not quite black.
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How to reproduce:  Wander aimlessly into some meta site (either, logged on some other site or not logged at all) Try to upvote/downvote/do something that requires you to be logged in (this will trigger the login or create an account) Click any login option ... ....  What happens? You get a . What this silly user thinks should happen? Either, allow me to login or do not show me the box to login in the first place. Impact? All per-site metas.
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I used to open many interesting questions from Stack Overflow (10..80 tabs) in my browser and then read them slowly over weeks. My browser (Opera) knows to reopen the last tabs but I'm afraid it has an aggressive caching mechanism.  By that I mean it shows me I'm still logged in but when I try to post a response or a comment I'm given a strange error message (for example: Cannot add comment because the answer has been locked or deleted) when all that is wrong is that I'm no longer logged in.   Refreshing the page prior to posting (along with re-logging in) solves the problem.  My issue is: shouldn't the error message state something along the lines: "you're not logged in suckaa..."?
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How can I add a Login link to the "Main navigation" menu?  When a user clicks on the link, it should take them to the /user/login page. Once they login, the link should change to say "Logout" instead of "Login".  Is there any way to add such a link?
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My boss has insisted for a while that our login process be divided into two steps on separate pages: on the first page, ask the user's e-mail address. On the second page, either display "user found" and ask for password, or "user not found" and ask for e-mail again.  He insists it is much easier for our users who often forget their credentials or if they even have an account yet. I've long been against this approach because it forces every user to go through two steps every time they login. (I also wonder if it's a security concern, knowing that it will confirm when an email exists in our system.) I would prefer to have a more standard login page with e-mail (all of our usernames are e-mails) and password, and one very clear link for "forgot password?".  Neither of us have any hard data to support our theories, and we have more important things to do than A/B test something that he doesn't think is even a problem. I was just wondering if anyone here could provide some arguments or hard data for or against either approach. I enjoy considering UX design, but I am not an expert.
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I've seen this question already:   I remember that Chrome used to do this if you go to the History view and enter a query in the search box there.  However, it's not working for me anymore. I can't find anything now!  Did Chrome stopped doing this? Am I missing something? Do I have to enable/disable something?
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The above link talks about how auto login is implemented in SO. Answer to that post points to this solution.     Now in 2016, if i access another SO site after logging into one, we get logged into the second site immediately without any page refresh.   I am curious to know how this "without any page refresh" login thing work.
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It is common for public Wi-Fi access points to include login pages, even at times, when they’re free (i.e. Starbucks, many airports, hotels, etc).  I’m often in a situation where I’ll open up Chrome/Firefox, with and all my previously open tabs will start to reload.  If there is a wireless login redirection page, however, every tab is redirected and reloaded and the previous page is lost from history (and the back button won't return to it).  Is there any way to avoid or circumvent this behavior?
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I cleared all my browser data and visited  and it logged me back in. How?  This happens on Chrome on OS X and Windows 7.  Surely the security concerns outweigh the benefits to the user. What if a family member or friend wants to use my machine? I wouldn't want them logged in as me.  Update  My mistake, I should have said data &#8212; all those checkboxes clicked/checked. I completely cleared everything, yet it still logs me back in.  Update 2  Here's a video to prove it:
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I downloaded the July 30th update for Pokemon Go and when I open the app I'm prompted to login, But once I login, it redirects me to this page on Cookies::     If I click "Done" in the top left, it prompts me to login again! I've tried reinstalling the game, restarting my phone, etc. I can't much enable Cookies on the inline Safari browser. It doesn't make sense, and cookies are on in Safari (because I don't use Safari and they're enabled by default).  How can I fix this?