I hope this is where this goes...

When the new update to the User Dashboard happened in the last week or so a huge screen stretching button for Disable Account was put directly under the update profile button. Why was this considered a good idea? I have absolutely no doubt I'll be accidentally clicking it while coding profiles. It makes no sense to have it on that page. Could this be changed? Put it under Password or Preferences. Somewhere where I'm less likely to click it accidentally while coding half asleep...

Even if you accidentally click on it, it takes you here where you have to type in your password and mark a specific box, then confirm your choice.

It is in a strange place though and would be better suited elsewhere

I didn't even notice this had happened but I also think it shouldn't be where it is now. Whenever sites have the disable account button anywhere near something that I click on regularly I get really bad anxiety for fear of accidentally clicking on it. I have no idea what happens when you click on it, if you're just iced immediately or what, and I know this site is pretty lax and would probably help you get your account back open but I'd rather not waste anyone's time nor give myself a panic attack. The disable account button should be hidden away somewhere... I agree it should be put on the password reset page since people generally don't reset their passwords (imo) unless there's a security problem, then there would also be the option of disabling your account to protect yourself. It just shouldn't be the giant elephant in the room when I'm trying to decorate my profile. :/

edit: It took me so long to type this that I didn't see the post above. I'm glad you're not frozen immediately if you click on it but I still stand by what I said about moving it to the password page.

It should probably be its own tab on the page, I think.

When you went to your user dashboard before, it did have it's own tab amongst the others: customcss, profile, password, pin, widgets, etc. But it was recently removed from there and added to the profile page and we're not quite sure why.

Huh, I hadn't noticed. I know it doesn't immediately disable when clicked, but I still think it looks weird where it is right now, too. :P

Yeah I would definitely like this to be moved somewhere else on the page or something. I just know I'm going to end up accidentally clicking it where it's at now and that's not good. Unless I somehow hide it with css or something, which if it's not moved I may end up doing. I don't plan on icing my account any time soon or in the future.

Given that it has had its own place elsewhere for ages, it's very inconsistent, bad web design and needs to be put back from whence it came.

It makes absolutely no sense to put it under the profile tab - disabling your account has nothing to do with editing your profile information.

Just put it back into its own separate tab again.

Having the button there obviously makes users uncomfortable...

It is right below the profile edit button, which some people use regularly. (It'd make me very uncomfortable if I edited my profile more often.) I feel like it should at least be moved to a page like the User Dashboard or such where it isn't directly below another button, if it is not moved back to its own tab.

I'd be uncomfortable if you accidentally clicked it then POOF you're frozen. But it isn't that way, you have to do more than just click "disable account" so I have no real issue with it.

Move it, keep it, six one way, half dozen the other for me.

edit; Though I think it should be in a different tab. I would have never noticed it or looked there if I ever decided to disable my account.

Wouldn't it be easier to just put it in its own tab, and skip the button pushing? Have that tab have the warnings and things on it, and the password input to disable your account?

And, I'm not willing to test and find out but if there's not already, stick an "Are you sure?" popup on that shit just in case.

Well, seeing as Keith doesn't think it needs to be moved, I'll be hiding it somehow. No way in hell am I accidentally clicking on that thing.

[edit] You got a forum point while making a post!

Seems the site agrees with me lol

In case anyone else wants it. I tried to hide the segment below it, but it messes up other things on the site, so just hiding the button itself is all we can do. I figure if I ever change my mind I'll just take this bit of code out of my custom css so I can ice myself, but I have no intention of doing that.

/* Hide Delete Account Button */ .ui.button.red.fluid{display:none;}

Thank you for the code!

Thank you for that code holy crap-- if that's where it's going to stay it needs to be gone.

I do absolutely think this needs either a) a better place to go or b) it's own tab. Just because it takes you to another page doesn't justify putting it so glaringly in the middle of everything else, that's like a bank putting a "Terminate checking account and all money goes to us" right under the log off button, no thank you good sir 8|

Perhaps that Disable account option could go on this page: http://subeta.net/help/? Maybe with a bit more information entailing what it's purpose is (self-freezing, how to un-self-freeze and so on)?

On the topic of other cool stuff that was changed and the collective userbase doesn't seem to understand, why was the friend feed options for yourself (ie: what you wanted for you to show up for others) removed? I don't like that all of my interactions to others can be showcased in one place without my ability to do anything about it other than remove everyone from my friends list (which isn't very socially hip and interactive, if you ask me)... is there a reason this was taken down and/or could bringing those options back be possible at all?

The Preferences tab seems like a far more logical place for it than the Profile tab.

I can respect that perhaps it didn't need it's own tab... but WTF was the logic behind putting it on THAT tab in particular. Who thinks 'I want to self-freeze, I better go to the edit my profile page!!!"

No one, that's who.

I've been campaigning for it to be added to another page for ages. :P I hated how it had its own tab because it was always out in the open.

That said, the giant red button is way too in-your-face. It would make more sense as a small text link in the blurb at the top. ("...If you'd like to disable your account permanently, follow this link.")

And 's right about it being in the profile section. What really needs to happen (and what I've said many times before) is for the name/gender/email settings, password, and pin to be combined into one page ("User Info" or "Account"), separate from the profile management stuff.

- Thoughts?

It appears to have been discretely removed and now has it's own tab. Thank you for the quick action on this!