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Those kind of links are a great irritation for me when browsing and reading HN. Instead of http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=KnmhPyrF1t http://news.ycombinato
by JimWestergren 14y ago
Those kind of links are a great irritation for me when browsing and reading HN.
Instead of http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=KnmhPyrF1t http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=KnmhPyrF1t
Why not for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/news?page=2 http://news.ycombinator.com/news?page=2
?
- sp332 14y agoBecause things on the front page might have been pushed to page 2 by then, and things on page 2 might have been promoted to page 1, or aged to page 3, etc. The way it works now, all the ordering is fixed when you load the page 1, and page 2 will still be the same page 2 whenever you get around to clicking on it.
- yafujifide 14y agoA solution would be that when your page 2 expires then you should be redirected to the most up-to-date page 2 rather than being told page 2 doesn't exist.
- etcet 14y agoThere is actually a http://news.ycombinator.com/news2 http://news.ycombinator.com/news2 but I don't know in which cases it's linked from the front-page. I have seen it though, maybe it's at times with high traffic?
- b409ba0801cd21 14y agoI think that it appears for users that are not logged in.
- Teckla 14y agoThose kind of links are a great irritation for me when browsing and reading HN. My work around for the "unknown or expired link" bug is to open page 1 of HN, then immediately open pages 2, 3, and 4, but in separate tabs. That way, I never run afoul of that bug, and opening tabs is really easy in every modern browser. I'd be interested to know how other people work around the bug.
- brianshaler 14y agoWhenever I see it, I just leave. If you drop by every day or so, the 2nd and 3rd pages tend to be pretty redundant anyway.
- JimWestergren 14y agoGood recommendation, didn't think of that. I will do like that from now on. Thanks.