Ask HN: Can someone explain how new Reddit's "undo" works as a desktop feature

Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain how new Reddit's "undo" works... by bigyabai on Saturday May 17, 2025 @06:42PM (#44017571)

Your desktop menu is an imperfect idiom representing browser functions by proxy. The behavior has always been easily hijacked, there is no real native support for these menu functions in the web.

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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain how new Reddit's "undo" works... by GWBullshit on Saturday May 17, 2025 @06:56PM (#44017624)

I see and thank you for your reply; I just have one more question: If you select "desktop interaction", doesn't that by default "unselect" browser ... um ... "selection"?

In other words, when desktop is selected, how does my desktop "know" that of all the other possibly relevant things open (for example, a notes or word processing app), that it's "Oh, you probably wanted to undo what you just typed into your browser while you were on a website in edit mode"??

Is it purely a function of "undo last thing done"?

Having said that, I just noticed that "it's you again".

As a side question, do you have a tab with my submission history perma-opened?

Because I find it odd that you of all people "just happened to stumble across this" 2 minutes after I posted it.

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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain how new Reddit's "undo" works... by ahazred8ta on Saturday May 17, 2025 @07:56PM (#44017900)

Some people have the 'new' page bookmarked, and only read the 'new' feed. No stumbling involved. news.ycombinator.com/newest

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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain how new Reddit's "undo" works... by GWBullshit on Saturday May 17, 2025 @08:33PM (#44018059)

Fair enough.

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Re:Ask HN: Can someone explain how new Reddit's "undo" works... by GWBullshit on Saturday May 17, 2025 @07:37PM (#44017805)

Also as a side question, how is it that this works on Reddit but doesn't seem to do likewise on other websites under similar conditions?

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