So when I create a new account using gmail on a site while looking at a question, I get redirected back.  However, it seems that using the stackexchange login is bugged. Even if I'm looking at a question, it redirects me to the home page.  This is shown in the address bar.
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On a Stack Exchange site, if you are viewing a question, and click Log In to take some action on that question, and you log in with valid Stack Exchange credentials (but there's a step that creates an account on that particular site), you are not redirected back to the page on which you clicked the Log In button, that motivated the account creation in the first place.  Instead, it goes to a list of questions on that site, causing the user to lose easy access to what it is they wanted to do.  Even the browser Back button doesn't get the user there for at least a few clicks, going through Document Expired and login pages again.  Here's an example:
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I have an account on Stack Exchange but when I try to login to  I do not see the option Login with Stack Exchange.       Why is this option now not available?
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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've seen this question asked 3 times, but in none of those threads did I find a satisfactory answer.  I'm not asking about reputation: it makes sense that different sites should have different reputations.  However, consider the StackExchange drop-down menu at the top left of the screen.  When looking through the "Hot questions", the links are often to sister websites of StackExchange (programmers.stackexchange i.e.).  It doesn't make sense to me that if I go to one of those sister sites, I'm no longer logged in.  I feel like it's counterintuitive to click a link to go answer a question, only to find that you can't answer that question until you log in.  What is the reason for this?  Is there an option to do as I'm suggesting?
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I'm trying to login to stackoverflow using my wordpress openID. When I'm redirected back, I see the message  Redirects on POST requests that are to untrusted servers is not supported.   Is it by design or it's a bug?
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On most Stack Exchange sites, when I visit them I am already logged in if I have logged in before. Why isn't it the case with ?
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There has been some recent behavior change on SE (around July 2015).  I have two accounts I use, one Google openId based for one set of sites (call it Account-A) and another SE login based for a different set of sites (Account-B).  Used to be that I could be logged into one set of sites with the first user and a different set with the other users.    But now I am logged in with the Account-A on Site-1.  When I go to one of the sites I use the other account for and click "log in" under the SE menu, I go to a page where I only have an option to confirm creation of an account based on my Google login.  It does not present a way to log in with an SE account.    How can I log in with my other account here?  (and before you flag this as a duplicate, please ensure the other question is recent enough and that the answer is relevant.  This behavior has definitely morphed over the years... and I am having trouble finding something that is relevant.  For instance this question  simply points out how to merge the accounts which is NOT what I want  .  This question  talks about presenting different user info on each site but that's not what I want -- I want totally separate accounts).
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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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I have a registered StackOverflow account which I normally log into using OpenID.  Recently I logged out in order to post a question anonymously (supplying a fake name and of my secondary email addresses).  The problem now is that I'm logged in to StackOverflow as this "dummy" user, unable to see a way to log out.  The top menu normally has a "logout" link, but when you aren't fully registered this link is replaced with "register".  There is no "logout" link for me. :(  So..   When logged out there is a "login" link. When logged in there is a "logout" link. When "logged in" with an unregistered account, there is only a "register" link (no "logout").
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This seems counterintuitive to the vertical nature of Stack Exchange itself, but I cannot manage to browse to meta.stackexchange.com: I get redirected to meta.stackoverflow.com, instead.  This is also despite the fact that these URLs resolve to separate IP addresses...  ; &lt;&lt;&gt;&gt; DiG 9.7.3-P3 &lt;&lt;&gt;&gt; meta.stackexchange.com meta.stackexchange.com. 3421    IN  A   64.34.80.165  ; &lt;&lt;&gt;&gt; DiG 9.7.3-P3 &lt;&lt;&gt;&gt; meta.stackoverflow.com meta.stackoverflow.com. 684 IN  A   64.34.119.12   Am I being dumb somehow, or is this "the way it is"? If so, why?
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When I started using Stack&nbsp;Exchange sites several years ago, I logged in using Google since I wasn't sure I wanted yet another login. Well, at this point I value my Stack&nbsp;Exchange identity more than my Google identity, and I'd like to sever the connection.  I know you can add logins in the My Logins section of your settings, but I don't see a way to "add" the Stack Exchange login option I see in the new sign up screen.  Can this be done?
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is it possible to login/create user in stackoverflow.com without creating/login using OpenID? i hate using OpenID, it's really confusing if you create different user/account on different websites :(     Note: the following text was submitted as an edit suggestion. I approved it, giving the user the benefit of the doubt and assuming that it was the OP's other account. -   even when i want to post this question under my new openid, i still logged as the old user, so i can't view my own question when i logged under my userid
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It seems that all Stack Exchange sites do seem to be affected by a UX killing behaviour: it seems that every day you have to login again on each of them; they never remember your login.  For someone that is visiting these sites daily and a contributing a LOT, this is extremely annoying.  Is this so hard to implement? I don't remember when I had to re-login on Google or Facebook, still Stack&nbsp;Exchange keeps asking me to login all the time.  Affecting at least: stackoverflow.com, surperuser.com, serverfault.com, apple.stackexchenge.com, ask.ubuntu.com, ...  I tried logging in with all of these three variants, but it seems that there is no much difference between them: direct login, Google and Facebook.
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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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I think I originally signed up with a Launchpad account, but looking at “My Logins” I see two accounts: a StackExchange one (used yesterday) and Launchpad (used Jun 28 ’18) so I suppose I created a new login when OpenID support was dropped. I’ve tried logging out and logging back in with both, clearing the browser cache each time, but I just get the same message.
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I've created account on Server Fault with the "Join this community" button. It seems to be created as I see my picture and a starting 101 reputation on top. But when I tried to upvote I got a message I need to login and where I clicked on a different question it showed me I'm not logged in.    I think it didn't even create my account since later I clicked the signup button again, it asked me with which Google account I want to create it (I've two associated with my Chrome browser).
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Recently, the redirect behaviour of login on SEDE has changed (for the worse). Steps to reproduce:   When logged off, go to a query page Click the "login" link Login   Previously, you would be returned to the query page in a logged-in state (ready to run the query without captcha).  Currently, you are redirected to the SEDE front page (http://data.stackexchange.com/#) (so you then have to re-navigate back to where you were). The returnurl parameter passed in the first few steps is lost somewhere along the way.  Could  be reinstated?