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I’ll repeat what was already said. You shouldn’t hijack the back button. That is hostile to the user and will not generate sales for you. I think the idea is gr
by partisan 5y ago
I’ll repeat what was already said. You shouldn’t hijack the back button. That is hostile to the user and will not generate sales for you. I think the idea is great and is something I can use, but I’ll pass.
- pedalpete 5y agoLot's of comments here about hijacking the back button. I wasn't able to get the site to do this using Brave browser. What actions were you taking?
- shashashasha___ 5y agoyou got to click something like any link. opening the site doesn't allow it by itself to hijack the back as browsers do not allow that without user gesture.
- jeppesen-io 5y agonot on firefox mobile
- bmicraft 5y agoHappens on Firefox mobile for me. Redirect from / to /lang-en
- joezydeco 5y agoMobile Safari.
- jeppesen-io 5y agoMobile Firefox, no action
- jeroenhd 5y agoIt doesn't hijack anything, there's just a language redirect on the home page. It's not that uncommon, is it? It's not like it's messing around with the history API. On all back browsers I know, you can just skip the redirect by holding the browser's back button and picking an item from your browsing history if you find this too problematic.
- argvargc 5y agoIn my case, the back button didn't go back past the root page of the site. It trapped me where I did not want to be. I didn't know about holding the back button down, and I appreciate the tip, but I don't want to need to know it. The back button not functioning made me: - feel frustration and distrust - associate those feelings with the product and its creator - never want to use the product, despite being interested in it Clearly, I'm not the only one who felt these kinds of things. It seems to have completely overshadowed the product. My takeaway is this: Do not ever alter fundamental UI behaviours of the browser.
- tiborsaas 5y ago> never want to use the product, despite being interested in it Really? They made a bug on their website and you toss the whole product?
- argvargc 5y agoYes. If the way they treat a new customer is to arrest control of my browsing experience and prevent me from leaving their site, I have zero trust in them. And trust is everything.
- masukomi 5y agobad design choices that show disrespect for the reasonable expectations of your users cause me to NOPE right outta sites and products all the time. bugs not as much (unless it's a security product or someone who'd have access to my money).
- easton 5y ago> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yeetaccount4 5y agoAnd yet I’m still annoyed enough to upvote them.
- _joel 5y agoIf it's breaking the experience for users, they should know. It's not a minor annoyance, or minimal UX bug, as many others have stated, it turns them off from wanting to use the product.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoThose are guidelines, not rules. Perhaps it is time for HackerNews to put on its big boy pants after 14 years, and introduce a solid ToS, privacy policy, rules et al. Watch how people stop using it. For the record, that UX is poor in 2022. If something isn't accessibility friendly, by all means, people should be called on it so that they know it is a problem. It isn't like we're saying "it's shit," we're giving constructive criticism.
- WalterBright 5y agoThe scroll bars are missing, too.
- WalterGR 5y agoI’ll repeat what was already said Does HN now have a minimum karma requirement to upvote comments?