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When I land on the page, I get three history entries in my browser as your page loads. This means that if I have no interactions with the site and want to go ba

When I land on the page, I get three history entries in my browser as your page loads. This means that if I have no interactions with the site and want to go back to HN, I need to click back three times. While I get that this isn't a bug, it is a usability peeve that I notice on more and more sites lately.

switz 6y ago
I sent a PR to fix this. https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/pull/5 https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/p...
- callumprentice 6y ago
  Got it and will integrate now - much appreciated and much better than the endless entries. Thank you.
- sinsterizme 6y ago
  Not everyone has your knowledge and ability
  - corobo 6y ago
    I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not familiar with GitHub, please correct me if I'm wrong. A pull request (PR) includes the changes needed to fix the issue - the OP used their knowledge and ability to help :) You can see the actual file change here: https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/pull/5/files https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/p...
    - sinsterizme 6y ago
      Thank you. The parent to my comment originally had a snarky "and it only took me 45 seconds" to imply that instead of complaining the person he was replying to should have done what he did and opened a PR instead. Maybe I should reply using quotes so this sort of thing doesn't happen :)
      - corobo 6y ago
        Ahhhh! Yeah that makes sense, sorry for the assume! :)
- callumprentice 6y ago
  Merged it in and looks like it's in place - hopefully fix that nasty issue. Many thanks for the fix.
411111111111111 6y ago
It's not a new pattern though. Before they've done it for telemetry and identifying which initiative this click is from. Nowadays it's just that they're redirecting the default route to a particular site after, so they could potentially switch the site they redirect to later. While a small annoyance to mobile users which go there from sites like hn, it does give the owner of the site a tiny amount of control where ppl end up on their site. At least that's my interpretation...
- thoraway1010 6y ago
  Still so annoying. I wish browsers at least might do something like skip quick redirects in history?
  - pbhjpbhj 6y ago
    Browsers could pin recent other sites to the bottom of the visible history, so you can still leaf back within a website but moving back to the previous site is also very easy.
    - Moru 6y ago
      On desktop you can usually long-press the back button to get a list of the recent history and jump back two steps to avoid getting stuck.

switz 6y ago

I sent a PR to fix this. https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/pull/5 https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/p...

callumprentice 6y ago
Got it and will integrate now - much appreciated and much better than the endless entries. Thank you.
sinsterizme 6y ago
Not everyone has your knowledge and ability
- corobo 6y ago
  I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not familiar with GitHub, please correct me if I'm wrong. A pull request (PR) includes the changes needed to fix the issue - the OP used their knowledge and ability to help :) You can see the actual file change here: https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/pull/5/files https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/p...
  - sinsterizme 6y ago
    Thank you. The parent to my comment originally had a snarky "and it only took me 45 seconds" to imply that instead of complaining the person he was replying to should have done what he did and opened a PR instead. Maybe I should reply using quotes so this sort of thing doesn't happen :)
    - corobo 6y ago
      Ahhhh! Yeah that makes sense, sorry for the assume! :)
callumprentice 6y ago
Merged it in and looks like it's in place - hopefully fix that nasty issue. Many thanks for the fix.

411111111111111 6y ago

It's not a new pattern though. Before they've done it for telemetry and identifying which initiative this click is from. Nowadays it's just that they're redirecting the default route to a particular site after, so they could potentially switch the site they redirect to later. While a small annoyance to mobile users which go there from sites like hn, it does give the owner of the site a tiny amount of control where ppl end up on their site. At least that's my interpretation...

thoraway1010 6y ago
Still so annoying. I wish browsers at least might do something like skip quick redirects in history?
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago
  Browsers could pin recent other sites to the bottom of the visible history, so you can still leaf back within a website but moving back to the previous site is also very easy.
  - Moru 6y ago
    On desktop you can usually long-press the back button to get a list of the recent history and jump back two steps to avoid getting stuck.