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> Further - users (and I mean normal paying users, not HN commentators) rarely ever give a shit about URLs. It's just not important to most people what the stri
by scbrg 3y ago
> Further - users (and I mean normal paying users, not HN commentators) rarely ever give a shit about URLs. It's just not important to most people what the string of characters is.
This is not correct. Normal users have learned that if they copy that URL thingie, and send it to someone else, that someone else will see the same thing they see now.
I don't know how many times I've received a link from someone saying "lol look at this hilarious dog" and ended up on some useless overview page completely devoid of hilarious dogs. Because some fucking designer decided to do exactly what TFA is complaining about.
- mock-possum 3y agoFair, but there’s no reason a URL can’t resolve to a landing page and already open modal state populated with the content the other person shared to you. Deeplinking / permalinking works just as well with modals as it does with anchor named content blocks below the fold.
- usrbinbash 3y ago> ut there’s no reason a URL can’t resolve to a landing page and already open modal state populated with the content the other person shared to you. I can think of 2 very good reasons right away: 1. It increases the complexity of the webpage 2. It makes it impossible to simply download or integrate the resource elsewhere
- zelphirkalt 3y agoSure, if you want to put in the effort to make it work. Most however don't and then their websites suck in that regard.
- avisser 3y agoPermalinking has worked since Netscape 1.0 w/o any code from the developer. Why fight the system?
- Brian_K_White 3y agoSo, something can intrinsically work by default, or it can possibly work only when and if you go out of your way to make it work. Two totally equal choices!
- horsawlarway 3y ago> Two totally equal choices! No, because in the one that intrinsically works, you're losing the user's context by navigating them away. Which is what the modal is good for. Whether that's worth it is a discussion, but at least this part of it is trivially easy to implement.
- usrbinbash 3y ago> you're losing the user's context We're talking about BOOKMARKS, so what context do we lose? The users browsers home screen?