StumbleUpon has seen a decent share of user interface updates over the years. As a result, features have come and gone; along with their buttons and links. Apparently the Logout button wasn’t aesthetically pleasing enough or perhaps they were taking a tip from IKEA…. because somewhere during the updates they removed the it.
For example, take a look at the StumbleUpon home page. The logout button is nowhere to be seen. It reminds me of Hotel California: you can sign in whenever you want, but you can never logout.
Fortunately, besides clearing your cookies or history, there is still a secret backdoor URL that lets you logout. Well, it’s not really a secret, but there isn’t any easy way to find it.
Here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/logoutfa
Just click the Sign out button from this manually addressed logout page and you’ll be out of the system until you login again.
Ahh… Now doesn’t that feel better!
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Vadim
That’s a great find… that kind of thing just drives me NUTS! #whatthehell
Clint
you can click on the tools icon in the upper right-hand corner and select Sign Out from the drop down list.
N. H.
I never had to lookup a guide to logout of a site before! Lol, ridiculous. Thanks for the link. Not sure why they make a simple logout feel like I’m rooting around for a “delete account” option.