> There's also a high chance the browser will unload the reddit page causing a flash of no content and potentially losing the user's scroll position. The funny

> There's also a high chance the browser will unload the reddit page causing a flash of no content and potentially losing the user's scroll position. The funny thing about this is that this misbehavior is mostly exclusive to badly written SPAs and other heavily-JS’d sites. Plain old rendered HTML sites like old Reddit don’t flash blank and restore scroll position fine.