New forum layout, needed to search for 5 min to logout, a new feature by the forum software makers, to keep people logged in as long as possible to track them? Or am I too suspicious here? 
Discourse is an open-source platform, and the decisions about this kind of thing seem to be made in pretty public and democratic way. I would be very surprised if a “make it hard to log out for tracking purposes” argument got ANY traction in that environment.
There’s some history of discussion of this topic: Difficult to find logout button in new user menu - ux - Discourse Meta
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