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Re:Ask HN: Has HN Had an Upgrade? by proto_lambda on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:21AM (#34981554)
Are you sure? With JS disabled, the vote arrows are simple links for me that work as expected.
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Re:Ask HN: Has HN Had an Upgrade? by jraph on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:07AM (#34981939)
It's both! :-)

That's a perfect example of graceful degradation / progressive enhancement.

A JS event on the html element cancels clicks on those links and handles them in JS with AJAX so the page is not reloaded.

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