easier sign in please!

Hi All! I sent this email to Paul personally, but I'm also interested if this is mildly annoying to people besides me:

Hi!
>
> I've been annoyed by this slight thing for months, and it doesn't matter
> much but I thought you'd want to know. If I'm checking out the forums and
> find a thread I want to sign into, I try, and usually have to sign in, and
> then I'm not on the thread anymore, I'm on the main page. It's annoying!
>
> I like how meetup.com does it: I'm looking at a thread or profile and
> click to answer it, there's a pop-up sign in thing that even my linux
> allows, so I sign in and then I'm still on the page I wanted to comment
> on.
>
> Just a thought!
> Kelda

I am always signed in to this site on my computer so I don't have this problem. Then again, I am running windows so maybe it's different.