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A comment on Ask HN: Why is the back button becoming more and more useless?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is the back button becoming more and more use... by cookiengineer on Sunday July 10, 2022 @02:20AM (#32042307)
Because the people building those websites are not using the History API to push website state changes correctly. [1]

You could easily use unique encodings of URLs to restore the deep state of the website's content. Even when you would use e.g. only the #hash like the old twitter app did.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the back button becoming more and more use... by metadat on Sunday July 10, 2022 @02:33AM (#32042367)
"easily"

Is the Internet full of idiot engineers at LinkedIn etc?

I humbly submit it is not easy, these days, to deliver well-behaved SPAs.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the back button becoming more and more use... by cookiengineer on Sunday July 10, 2022 @02:36AM (#32042377)
I'm not implying those people are idiots. They just have different priorities, cause marketing and growth hacking keep them busy with other things.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the back button becoming more and more use... by metadat on Sunday July 10, 2022 @02:37AM (#32042380)
100% agree, cookiengineer.

PMs have never cared about it in my 20+ years of experience.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the back button becoming more and more use... by yellowapple on Sunday July 10, 2022 @02:59AM (#32042478)
> Is the Internet full of idiot engineers at LinkedIn etc?

Did you believe otherwise?

The cure to Impostor Syndrome is to realize that we're all impostors. Might as well get in on the action and put that Peter Principle to work.

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