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Why on earth the article linked to archive when the original is still up? https://slashdot.org/story/99/02/12/1429236/ask-slashdot-how-powerful-is-your-computer

Why on earth the article linked to archive when the original is still up? https://slashdot.org/story/99/02/12/1429236/ask-slashdot-how-powerful-is-your-computer https://slashdot.org/story/99/02/12/1429236/ask-slashdot-how... Is this another one of those "the old comments / commenters were better" nonsense?

cgriswald 5y ago
Maybe the submitter prefers a functioning back button that doesn’t spam you when you try to leave.
- notreallyserio 5y ago
  I haven't visited /. in ages. I didn't know how far it had fallen and am shocked it still gets traffic, given this back button behavior. It is indeed a good reason to never post direct links.
  - thg 5y ago
    Slashdot got sold to Dice a decade ago and went downhill from there. After their absolutely horrible redesign, which I guess they shelved because the site looks as I remember it, the community sort of split into two with plenty people moving over to https://soylentnews.org/ https://soylentnews.org/ Here's the first SoylentNews submission from 2014: https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1 https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1 Disclaimer: I'm just (barely) remembering stuff here. No idea what happened to either site past 2014.
- sigio 5y ago
  What 'back button behavior' are we talking about... noticed nothing when just clicking through a few articles and back, and then back out of slashdot completely. Though it might have been blocked by ublock-origin or some other addon without noticiing it.
  - cgriswald 5y ago
    When it functions as intended, the site hijacks the back button to offer you a series of “articles” to read “before you go.” I’m currently viewing on Safari on iOS through a firewall with a spam deny list. Whether the ad hits my deny list or not, the only way to go back from the site is to hold the back button and manually select a different page.
  - notreallyserio 5y ago
    On mobile Safari, /. "traps" you on their site by causing the back button/back swipe gesture to return you back to their site. I am not sure exactly how -- haven't looked at the code.
mgdlbp 5y ago
Three comments now pointing this out. I guess I'm still kind of new here, so I didn't know submitting the exact canonical URL was so valued. The main reason was that I noticed that the comments had been shuffled in a redesign, making the original threads harder to read (other reply [0]). I do see now how unnecessary Wayback links make it harder to find previous/dupe submissions. Though, Wayback links that are out of necessity aren't uncommon on HN; another case for more advanced URL deduping? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613493
- tpoacher 5y ago
  well, it's not so much that I was frowning upon it, it's more that I was genuinely curious. It seemed like an odd thing to do.

cgriswald 5y ago

Maybe the submitter prefers a functioning back button that doesn’t spam you when you try to leave.

notreallyserio 5y ago
I haven't visited /. in ages. I didn't know how far it had fallen and am shocked it still gets traffic, given this back button behavior. It is indeed a good reason to never post direct links.
- thg 5y ago
  Slashdot got sold to Dice a decade ago and went downhill from there. After their absolutely horrible redesign, which I guess they shelved because the site looks as I remember it, the community sort of split into two with plenty people moving over to https://soylentnews.org/ https://soylentnews.org/ Here's the first SoylentNews submission from 2014: https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1 https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1 Disclaimer: I'm just (barely) remembering stuff here. No idea what happened to either site past 2014.
sigio 5y ago
What 'back button behavior' are we talking about... noticed nothing when just clicking through a few articles and back, and then back out of slashdot completely. Though it might have been blocked by ublock-origin or some other addon without noticiing it.
- cgriswald 5y ago
  When it functions as intended, the site hijacks the back button to offer you a series of “articles” to read “before you go.” I’m currently viewing on Safari on iOS through a firewall with a spam deny list. Whether the ad hits my deny list or not, the only way to go back from the site is to hold the back button and manually select a different page.
- notreallyserio 5y ago
  On mobile Safari, /. "traps" you on their site by causing the back button/back swipe gesture to return you back to their site. I am not sure exactly how -- haven't looked at the code.

mgdlbp 5y ago

Three comments now pointing this out. I guess I'm still kind of new here, so I didn't know submitting the exact canonical URL was so valued. The main reason was that I noticed that the comments had been shuffled in a redesign, making the original threads harder to read (other reply [0]). I do see now how unnecessary Wayback links make it harder to find previous/dupe submissions. Though, Wayback links that are out of necessity aren't uncommon on HN; another case for more advanced URL deduping? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613493

tpoacher 5y ago
well, it's not so much that I was frowning upon it, it's more that I was genuinely curious. It seemed like an odd thing to do.