No "login" on homepage

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Username: [nighting]
Revision: 628
URL: grinnellplans.com/home.php
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 
Firefox/26.0

1. Log out of plans
2. Go to https://grinnellplans.com/home.php
3. Note that "Log out" is an option, and there's no (obvious) way to log in

Clicking "Log out" takes you to the login page, but surely we're better than 
that. I would expect either a "Log in" link or a login form to be presented on 
the left.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 31 Jan 2014 at 8:53

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Not a bug - way it works. If you aren't logged in to an account, you're assumed 
to be logged in as a guest.

Original comment by [email protected] on 31 Jan 2014 at 8:55

• Changed state: Invalid

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I'd argue that it is a bug from a UI/usability perspective. It's like how in XP 
you had to press "Start" to get to the shutdown menu. Not technically wrong, 
perhaps, and yes you can figure out how to get where you need, but "assumed to 
be logged in as a guest" feels wrong.

Original comment by [email protected] on 31 Jan 2014 at 9:03

[GoogleCodeExporter]

This *does* drive me crazy whenever I get logged out of Plans. I usually end up 
on the page for someone's plan, getting the "There is either no plan with that 
name or it is not viewable to guests" message.

Original comment by [email protected] on 1 Feb 2014 at 5:01

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Reopening. What should the correct behavior be? Bounce the user to the login 
page if they don't have a valid cookie and haven't had a "clicked the guest 
button" cookie set?

Original comment by [email protected] on 1 Feb 2014 at 5:14

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I was thinking throw login boxes everywhere, but... your idea is way better.

Original comment by [email protected] on 1 Feb 2014 at 5:30

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The fastest (trivial) fix is the patch attached to bug 262 (which should 
probably be merged into this thread, if Google allows that). A valid guest 
cookie check would be a pretty elegant solution, though.

Original comment by [email protected] on 1 Feb 2014 at 5:59