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> Almost all of them suffer from the same problem. If you click on something in the feed that brings you to a new page, when you hit the back button or try to
by mchahn 11y ago
> Almost all of them suffer from the same problem. If you click on something in the feed that brings you to a new page, when you hit the back button or try to return to that original feed, your place is lost.
Does everyone else see this also? I don't remember the last time it happened to me.
- gukov 11y agoThe facebook feed is unusable because of this. Not only you lose your place, but the whole feed is completely different.
- theseatoms 11y agoThis is why I usually Ctrl + click to open link in new tab when scrolling through an infinite scroll.
- nate 11y agoHa yep! Before our snapback cache, what you're saying was the solution we kept recommending to folks. We use javascript to make the whole note a clickable target area, not just the hyperlink. And so we had to listen for the ctrl+click events too just to make sure that all worked too.
- mchahn 11y agoI just realized that I do this by habit so maybe that's why I never see the problem. I'd just as well see all clicks go to new tabs. It's just as easy to hit ctrl-W as it is to hit backspace.
- nate 11y agoThat's really interesting. It's like we've all been conditioned to just have unconscious clicking patterns to deal with this headache. Opening up new tabs for things was definitely an easy solution on the table. But that's a pretty uncommon design pattern, and one that would probably drive our users nuts. Back button basically goes away as a habit, and then they'd have to learn that just for this app they need new muscle memory of ctrl+w. But yeah, definitely a design choice one could make.
- christianmann 11y agoFor that reason, I'd prefer to see /no/ clicks go to new tabs by default, and let the user decide.
- theseatoms 11y agoThis must be a configurable setting within most browsers...
- daurnimator 11y agoI use middle mouse click: same thing.
- christianmann 11y agoBetterTouchTool lets me use three-finger tap.
- nkjoep 11y agomiddle click or 3 finger click #FTW
- nate 11y agoReally depends on what you click on. Twitter and Facebook both have most clicks keep you in the context of the feed with modals or in place expansions. But every now and then some action they haven't fully accounted for takes you to a different page and then bam you've lost your scroll history. But regardless of what they do, a lot of our content in our feeds doesn't lend itself well all the time to modals and expansions. People want to click into something and check out their contacts history, do some kind of work, etc. and still get back to the feed at the right place.
- n0us 11y agoReddit is terrible about this. If you collapse comment threads and accidentally click on something you can become completely lost.