Dear Apple Support Communities - Your Major Sign-in Flaw

so you get an email with an answer to your question and you click "View full discussion"..... if you want to respond you have to sign in..... which doesn't reopen in the forum topic you were just in but to the generic home page..... you either have to go back to your mail client and re-click the link or search your posted topics.... a definite unnecessary step. Every other forum I've used either has me already logged and sends me to the specific topic as it has the login built into the link..... or if I'm not logged in and then do so it stays on the topic I want to reply to.
Apples system involves numerous extra clicks.... surely something Steve Jobs abhors!
..... also I'm not sure what the default 'stay logged in' time is but it only appears to be 2 or 3 minutes
just my 2 cents!

maybe so.  I didn't upgrade because as best as I can tell, I don't need any of the Lion features right now and am perfectly happy with SL which is what I started with.  I figure I will wait until there are either no more updates or until I get a new mac which I am hoping won't be for a long time.  I wish this forum would make it easier to include on a post what the product and OS is for the poster.  You have to go to the advanced editor and then choose the product/OS you want to show.   Its easy if you are in the specific community for an OS but so many of these communities include everyone.  I have replied to people who are on Leopard or even Tiger and then found out that I didn't have a clue as to what they needed. If I'm asking the question, I try to remember to include mine so that those who respond will know, but I don't always do that.  Maybe someone with Lion will be able to help you.  
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