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Yes, it is a feature, a feature that leads to a terrible user experience, so while it may not be a bug due to it being by design, its still a really big defect.
by se85 14y ago
Yes, it is a feature, a feature that leads to a terrible user experience, so while it may not be a bug due to it being by design, its still a really big defect.
In my personal instance: I would be much more of a contributor to HN If I didn't have this problem on a daily basis.
Usually it happens after I have tabs open, go get some food, come back, and I need to start my browsing on HN all over again as a result, usually this only happens once, because I say fuck it and go elsewhere.
What are the pro's that make this con worth it? I'm not seeing it, its just a big massive pain in the ass.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoMan, really, a feature? You think the designer of this forum decided to break all the links on purpose? That's some strange design decision. Wouldn't a minimum fix be a simple htaccess redirect for failed links? As page refresh usually works then a redirect to the referer (ie send you back to the page you're on) would seem like it should work most of the time: of course it should preferably give some feedback to indicate what has happened.
- se85 14y agoIt really isn't as simple as that. I don't know the inner workings, but from what I understand - data gets invalidated by its "key" and new pages with new keys are generated so that the page content remains "fresh" - so no htaccess rule is going to help you with a problem like that. It sounds like there is some serious changes required to fix this so it behaves like conventional pagination, which I'm guessing is why it has not been fixed.