I Hate the New Login Screen

SamirD

Why in the world was this messed with? Now instead of login, tab, password, tab, space to mark the checkbox, tab, enter, I have to mouse around and wait for some sort of client-side code to check my login and put a little checkmark beside it. I need speed, not all this pretty stuff. Form-following-function, please!

So where's the html for the old login screen? I want that back.

Andy

Hi Samir, hm, something's not right... here's me logging in: http://screencast.com/t/qRsgW4XEdL and I didn't use any mouse at all. Can you explain more?

SamirD

But you didn't check the "keep me logged in" box. Try it and let me know what happens.

Andy

works just as fast for me. Can you elaborate more on what the issue is with the keep me logged in checkbox?

jfriend

No issues here with the new login screen either.

SamirD

Andy wrote: »

works just as fast for me. Can you elaborate more on what the issue is with the keep me logged in checkbox?

Try to get to it via a tab. It skips it and goes to the login button. :cry

jfriend

SamirD wrote: »

Try to get to it via a tab. It skips it and goes to the login button. :cry

Woah, there is indeed a problem. Andy, here's what I did. I logged out. Then, from www.smugmug.com, I hit the login button. I got presented with the new login screen. I started to type in my email address. After typing a few characters, the whole screen cleared and reloaded and everything I had typed was gone. It's 100% reproducible for me. There's something going on with the load of that screen that causes it to do something over the network and then reload itself. It appears to have something to do with the Facebook stuff in that screen. The design of the way this work is borked. It shouldn't present you with the name and password field, accept typing into those fields and then decide to reload the whole page. Bad.

New info. When I first come to login screen, the FB stuff says "logging in" and then when that goes away, that's the moment that it clears the screen and throws away my typing. FYI, I have never in my entire existence used the FB login for Smugmug (nor do I understand why I would ever do so). But, my browser is regularly logged into FB (for FB usage, nothing to do with Smugmug).

So, I think there's some FB code in that login screen that is borking things.

SamirD

jfriend wrote: »

Woah, there is indeed a problem. Andy, here's what I did. I logged out. Then, from www.smugmug.com, I hit the login button. I got presented with the new login screen. I started to type in my email address. After typing a few characters, the whole screen cleared and reloaded and everything I had typed was gone.

I have a similar issue, but it keeps the characters I've typed. It just changes the focus from the field so anything else I type goes into neverland. I just wait a second before typing. It's another second wasted, but what can you do. At least it works that way until I try to tab to the checkbox.

Between that and the tab issue, I have to reiterate that I hate the new login screen. :cry Not because of form, but function.

Andy

jfriend wrote: »

So, I think there's some FB code in that login screen that is borking things.

John, did you link your Facebook account to your SmugMug login?

Andy

SamirD wrote: »

Try to get to it via a tab. It skips it and goes to the login button. :cry

There we go, now I see why you are not happy. Thanks for restating this crucial detail.

jfriend

Andy wrote: »

John, did you link your Facebook account to your SmugMug login?

Never. The whole feature seems foolish to me (e.g. not something I would ever want to use).

SamirD

Andy wrote: »

There we go, now I see why you are not happy. Thanks for restating this crucial detail.

Sorry I didn't just say it from the beginning. I thought I spelled it out in my tab, type, tab sequence in my first post.

scotticus

jfriend, you had a linked facebook account with the wrong permissions set. We see this from just a few users who have used besocial, and logged in prior to our previous login update. I removed the bad account, so you should stop getting the redirect, and now if you did want your account linked, you can add it. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Thanks,
Scott.

SamirD

SamirD wrote: »

I have a similar issue, but it keeps the characters I've typed. It just changes the focus from the field so anything else I type goes into neverland. I just wait a second before typing.

Just ran into this problem again when logging in...grrr...I guess I'll have to load the login screen and then quickly do something else and come back to prevent this from happening.

scotticus

So SamirD, you're just trying to login normally using your email/password? And the page reloads and then shifts focus?

jfriend

scotticus wrote: »

jfriend, you had a linked facebook account with the wrong permissions set. We see this from just a few users who have used besocial, and logged in prior to our previous login update. I removed the bad account, so you should stop getting the redirect, and now if you did want your account linked, you can add it. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Thanks,
Scott.

Thanks. It's working better now.

SamirD

scotticus wrote: »

So SamirD, you're just trying to login normally using your email/password? And the page reloads and then shifts focus?

Yep. Load page. Looks loaded, click on first field (really missed how it auto-focused here before), start typing, and by the time I get halfway through my domain name, huntsvillecarscene.com, it loses focus on the field. So I have to re-click to get the focus on the field again. Continue typing, tab, password, tab--oh wait, can't use tab to get to the checkbox. Mouse over to checkbox, then just mouse over to login.

I just want the fast login like before. I was able to login in <5 seconds before--even with typing everything in. :cry

Allen

Now if they'll just fix the "return to photo" when logging in/out instead of
returning to the first in gallery. This is a huge problem when doing a quick
caption or keyword edit on a photo many pages in.

This statement after logging out is NOT correct.
Take me to the page I was viewing.

RogersDA

Allen wrote: »

Now if they'll just fix the "return to photo" when logging in/out instead of
returning to the first in gallery. This is a huge problem when doing a quick
caption or keyword edit on a photo many pages in.

This statement after logging out is NOT correct.
Take me to the page I was viewing.

Actually, the logging-in process should give you a choice of going to (a) previous page, (b) home page, or (c) your control panel. Some people log-in from the SmugMug page and not from their site.

SamirD

RogersDA wrote: »

Actually, the logging-in process should give you a choice of going to (a) previous page, (b) home page, or (c) your control panel. Some people log-in from the SmugMug page and not from their site.

That could be an option in the control panel of what to do upon login. Add it to feedback.smugmug.com.

RogersDA

SamirD wrote: »

That could be an option in the control panel of what to do upon login. Add it to feedback.smugmug.com.

Option in the CP would not do it I think. I think SM needs to present the three options @ log-in so that the site owners can decide at that time where they want to go. Sometime you want to go to the CP, sometimes to the previous page, and sometimes to your home page.

jfriend

RogersDA wrote: »

Option in the CP would not do it I think. I think SM needs to present the three options @ log-in so that the site owners can decide at that time where they want to go. Sometime you want to go to the CP, sometimes to the previous page, and sometimes to your home page.

If you're logging in from www.smugmug.com, there is no previous page on your site. Previous page would be the page you logged in from (www.smugmug.com), not on your site.

SamirD

RogersDA wrote: »

Option in the CP would not do it I think. I think SM needs to present the three options @ log-in so that the site owners can decide at that time where they want to go. Sometime you want to go to the CP, sometimes to the previous page, and sometimes to your home page.

Hmm...but that would also clutter up the login screen, which is what I think the point of the latest redesign was to correct.

jasonscottphoto

I agree - I wish they would put a link to the control panel at the top of the main page when logged in. (http://uservoice.com/a/bxBfI) Or as you all have said, give an option after logging in to choose where to go.

Andy

Hi Guys, thanks for the suggestions. In the meantime, it's dead-simple for you guys to have a bookmark in your bookmarks bar of your browser, to your control panel, or anywhere on your site that you want to go to

jfriend

affdigphotos wrote: »

I agree - I wish they would put a link to the control panel at the top of the main page when logged in. (http://uservoice.com/a/bxBfI) Or as you all have said, give an option after logging in to choose where to go.

On the top of my main page when I'm logged in:

jasonscottphoto

I know that. I am talking about the top of the smugmug home page. I usually go there, because even if I am logged in (always am), my control panel buttons, etc don't show up on my homepage until I go to smugmug.com first. Would love to just go there and click "control panel"


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jfriend

affdigphotos wrote: »

I know that. I am talking about the top of the smugmug home page. I usually go there, because even if I am logged in (always am), my control panel buttons, etc don't show up on my homepage until I go to smugmug.com first. Would love to just go there and click "control panel"


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As Andy said, a bookmark in your browser is probably the best choice. One click no matter where you are and always available.

jasonscottphoto

I have done that. Doesn't hurt to ask for something that would be even easier though... Right?

SamirD

New login screen thwarted another what used to be speedy login. I really, really hate it. It's almost 3am and between this and upload problems, I'm losing sleep. :cry

Seamus

SamirD wrote: »

New login screen thwarted another what used to be speedy login. I really, really hate it. It's almost 3am and between this and upload problems, I'm losing sleep. :cry

I don't understand why you have to keep logging in? I logged into my SmugMug site sometime this year and have stayed logged in since. Unless I'm checking my site on a public computer, I don't see why I would need to log out and log back in? sorry if I'm missing the point here, I'm genuinely curious?