I am glad the Welcome Banner made it into the standard, and although it’s pretty configurable it still doesn’t support my two main usecases.
One option for me is to only show it to unauthenticated users in order to remind them to sign in, but not waste the space of returning users. The extra subtitle for that case is a good start, but not showing it would be better.
What would be an alternative for me is to show it also for logged in users, but only on the / start page or after registration suceeded. There is a homepage setting but this one does show it if you go to /latest and latest is your homepage. Also not really sure about the top and explore options, they don’t really make a difference to me?
So I suggest two new settings, visible only to log logged in or visible only once after login.
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