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Pick any article on that page. Scroll to the bottom and refresh. In a tradition site the browser would remember your scroll position. Here it doesn't, likely du
by Touche 8y ago
Pick any article on that page. Scroll to the bottom and refresh. In a tradition site the browser would remember your scroll position. Here it doesn't, likely due to using client-side routing in JavaScript. So instead you're taken to the start of the article each time.
It's this type of detail that's really difficult to get right when you choose to opt-out of decades of iteration and do everything yourself.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoSure, but "not retaining scroll position on refresh" is hardly a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- Touche 8y agoYou can't dismiss this bug like that. Having multiple tabs open and having those tabs get taken out of memory and needing to refresh is a very common thing to happen. This is a bad bug for this particular website. Now, you said that by layering a SPA on top that an "even better experience" is provided. What exactly is the better experience? Just navigating around the site a bit I don't see anything particularly dynamic about it at all.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoActually, I just disabled JavaScript and tried reloading on a page, and that bug happens anyway. Not sure why that's happening, but it's not JavaScript. And considering it doesn't inhibit access to the content at all, "bad bug" is a gross overstatement. As for the better experience: faster loading and dark theme?