Add "Sign Up" to the site header

[dfabulich (Dan Fabulich)]

TIL that Discourse fully hides the “Sign Up” button on mobile screens.

It’s not even in the menu. The only way to sign up is to tap “Log In” and then tap “Sign Up” on the Log In screen.

I filed a feature request about this on the Discourse forum.

Make it easier to find "Sign Up" on mobile

But, in the meantime, I think there’s some stuff we could do to make this experience better.

There’s a “Discourse Combined Auth Button” theme component we can use to put a combined “Sign Up / Log In” button in the site header.

Discourse Combined Auth Button

I experimented with this in Dev Tools; I think if we did this, we should make the mobile site logo just be the “IF” square, because “intfiction.org” becomes illegibly small with the text “Sign Up / Log In” in the button.

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

I went ahead and changed the mobile logo to just the IF square since that’s a good space-saving/low-clutter idea in general.

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

I will look into the theme component after work unless someone else jumps on it beforehand.

[Dannii]

We might be able to do this just with a text change rather than a component.

@HanonO

I will look into the theme component after work unless someone else jumps on it beforehand.

Oh, I see you’ve already installed it. Thanks!

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

The theme component updates the login and gives a modal to choose “Sign Up” or “Log In”.