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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by icebraining on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:18PM (#20854980)
Yes, it does. I think you have something weird with your browser: with JS on, it does a light AJAX request, without it, it does the whole redirect thing.
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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by manigandham on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:10PM (#20855322)
The request is the same. The buttons are <a> tags. Without JS, the link is clicked and does a full page reload. With JS, the click is caught and sent as a AJAX request where the response is ignored.

It's not any lighter, it's just not reloading the page.

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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by oplav on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:37PM (#20855113)
https://i.imgur.com/9z2VAfa.png

These are my network requests when I vote with JS enabled.

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Re:Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News by Deimorz on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:39PM (#20855481)
Whoops, you're right, it does work either way. The response is the same with or without JS though, it just doesn't do anything with it when JS is enabled (because as a hacky way of doing "AJAX" it sets the voting url as the src value of an <img> tag that doesn't actually get displayed).
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