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One of many things I hate on crappy modern web is messing with history (API). You click a interesting-looking link somewhere (like HN), go to page. You scroll d
by muhehe 3y ago
One of many things I hate on crappy modern web is messing with history (API). You click a interesting-looking link somewhere (like HN), go to page. You scroll down, either reading or just skimming, and every funcking header (or even something less important) add entry to you history. To get back to original site you have to click back like a million times.
Fuck everyone who does that.
- Falkon1313 3y agoI'll also add 'infinite scroll'. Just use a pager. It's linkable, searchable, browseable, works correctly with the history. Infinite scroll breaks all of that for no good reason.
- asaddhamani 3y agoNot to mention the sites that make it impossible to see their footer because of infinite scrolling.
- xp84 3y agoYeah I love that. A site I used to work on put their currency and language picker there, but on half the pages you literally couldn’t reach the footer!
- muhehe 3y agoThere is one site I always admire (non-ironic) in this regard - twitter. I scroll it's feed, click on tweet, dive into several sub-threads and then I can easily get back to main feed where I was. (Unless they fucked it up recently). That's shiny example of doing it right. Too sad it's pretty much only one.