Login: dynamic detection of platform for existing users visiting the website

[agjohnson]

This might be a duplicate issue, it's work we talked about originally as a later project.

The idea would be to use the referrer, query param, or cookie to determine where the user was coming from or has logged into in the past. This would allow us to highlight a site log in option for the user, such as highlight the community login link if we can detect that the user is a community user. This would help cut down on users randomly switching platforms.

[agjohnson]

A couple more notes here:

• This could be a cookie of the last option the website visitor selected, which would be easy for us to track with just a cookie on the website.
• We might make this fancy and replace the button with a direct link to the last selected property (perhaps with a dropdown icon to select the other platform).
• We might make this less fancy and just highlight, or add an icon to, the last used platform in the current dropdown list. This doesn't save clicks but reduces errors from logging into the wrong site at least.