I personally believe that the last few times I asked something in this section, it later turned out that the feature I was after was already there, just waiting in the User Settings to be selected. But now I've gone there and looked in all reasonable places, and it seems to me that it plainly doesn't exist...

On the very machine I'm writing this, as it turns out, I'm pretty much always logged in to PM. But as it happens, I often have to come here from other computers. And I (prefer to) have to login on those. Not much harm done, but in the somewhat novel (for me) course of doing so, I noticed that it is pretty much boring to be always redirected to the incarnation of node #109 saying:

Hey. Glad you're back. Would you like to go to your home node, to Newest Nodes, or to Recently Active Threads?
...or back to The Monastery Gates?

So I wonder whether an option could be added to the effect of specifying a node that the user will be redirected to, upon login.

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Re: Customizable login page?
by ysth (Canon) on Aug 05, 2008 at 02:23 UTC
    You can log in on any public page; first go to the page, then use the login form in the nodelet column. Or, even for non-public pages, do it in one fell swoop, like 
    http://domain/?node_id=nnnnnn;op=login;user=uu;passwd=pp;expires=%2B10
+y

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    (using expires=%2B10y is equivalent to checking the "remember me" box).
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      You can log in on any public page; first go to the page,

      (additional emphasis mine)

      I personally believe that you may have imagined that in quite a few years (albeit many less than you) at the Monastery I should have noticed: indeed, I did notice. No offense taken, BTW: I'm clearly stating so because I realize my tone may suggest the contrary... OTOH you say the right thing: "go to!" And if I have to go to some page, it's not that much of a difference whether I go there before or after the login respectively.

      Of course, your remark could just be a suggestion to save a bookmark to the given page I like and to login from that one. This does make sense. But, believe me: there are situations in which I don't want to save a bookmark anyway. Or I may just be on a public machine. Or at a friend's house.

      To put it straight and clear: this is not a feature without which I can't live. But it would be so supposedly easy to implement, and lightweight, that it wouldn't be too bad to have... I login, and I'm in my favourite page to start my visits @ PM, period.

      Or, even for non-public pages, do it in one fell swoop, like 
      http://domain/?node_id=nnnnnn;op=login;user=uu;passwd=pp;expires=%2B10
+y

      [download]

      This, instead, I ignored altogether: thank you! (Although I doubt I'll be using it...)

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Re: Customizable login page?
by ysth (Canon) on Aug 07, 2008 at 04:33 UTC
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      Undocumented feature: perlmonks.org/?node=blazar can be made to contain a 'login' form that submits to whatever node the author desires. :)

      - tye        

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