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Website designers: Please, for the love of God, stop breaking the "back" button. PLEASE!

• dataspun 5y ago
  +1 it’s a deal-breaker
  • ChordFunc 5y ago
    I'll fix this, thanks for pointing it out :D
• dehrmann 5y ago
  While you're at it, remember <A> tags are a thing and let me open things in a new tab again.
  • ChordFunc 5y ago
    Are there any spesific elements on the site you are thinking about?
    • dehrmann 5y ago
      This wasn't to you specifically. It's a common complaint I have that buttons that take me somewhere and act like links should be links.
• dang 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." What we didn't add in the guideline is that they also often get upvoted to near-top of the thread, which chokes out interesting discussion. More of the problem is caused by the upvotes than by the comment itself, but it's harder to do anything about the upvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html