Guild Wars 2

I don’t know why such a basic feature is missing in this forums, but its driving me crazy. When I click on a link to a forum post, this forum direct me to a log in page and after I log in, direct me to the main page, instead of the page I try to get to.

Many times I open links to this forum from another site, close that tab only to realize that I lost all those links because this forum want me to log in.

Instead of directing to the main page, save the link that the user is trying to get to and direct the user there after log in. If this is too hard for your web programmer to implement… at least use a redirect that does NOT overwrite browser history so that I can use to back button to go back to the desired page.

I work around this now, by visiting the my account link, so that I’m always logged on before I click on a link.

However, as the OP suggests, this seems like something that could be resolved with some minor tweaks to the cookie/logon process.