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The article was nice, but when I hit the back button , the site scrolled to a suggested article and told me "hey, check this before you go". No, just let me us
by aspyct 6y ago
The article was nice, but when I hit the back button , the site scrolled to a suggested article and told me "hey, check this before you go".
No, just let me use my back button.
- dunefox 6y agoInstall a script blocker.
- amelius 6y agoCan't you just disable hijacking of the history in the browser?
- pastrami_panda 6y agoIs there a term for this terrible practice? Should be similar to scrolljacking, but backjacking feels weird... perhaps navjacking?
- rapnie 6y agoNot the right term, but certainly a 'dark pattern'. It could be 'button hijacking', though.
- i386 6y agoI dislike that comments like this are the top voted comment rather than something insightful about the article’s content itself.
- detaro 6y ago> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- aspyct 6y agoFair enough, I didn't know. I can't find a "delete" button for my comment though. Where is it? On the other hand though, I feel like we should always complain about that kind of behavior, if at least to shame the practice and encourage developers to actively refuse implementing those.
- the_duke 6y agoYou can't delete comments once they have responses.
- cesarb 6y ago> Fair enough, I didn't know. IIRC, that's a new rule, added around a month ago. Since your account is older than that, it's very probable that the rule wasn't there the last time you looked at that page. Which means you shouldn't feel bad about not knowing.
- cortic 6y agoWhat a horribly pretentious rule. And the commonality of these annoyances are only compounded by this capitulation to poor design. Luckily, there is no rule forbidding complaining about rules.
- squarefoot 6y ago> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting I partially disagree with this rule. Complaining about crappy websites might be annoying for old timers and experienced techies, but let's say a 22 years old fresh web programmer joins HN to read some news and discovers that the framework/library/tool his PM suggested produces a pile of crappy code that renders every site slow as molasses, and the same product is used on a site getting hard criticism about that; he could actually learn something and ultimately find a better solution for his job, ultimately contributing to make a better web. I know I'm taking it to the extreme, but you get my point. I would rather change that line to something like "keep concise and to the minimum all comments about site formatting, slowness etc. and don't reply to those comments unless you can recomment a better solution".
- amelius 6y agoThis comment would be better if it actually prevented me from viewing the article. But it starts with "the article was nice", which accomplishes the opposite.