Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.
Given that this isn’t “Show HN”, please don’t comment about this.
„he hijacks the back button so he can“ - sounds pretty much intentional. No one would argue against an alert asking you if you want to leave without saving you work or sth similar, though.
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Please don’t prevent people from leaving your site using browser navigation. It’s impossible to get back to hackernews by swiping back on iOS.
Given that this isn’t “Show HN”, please don’t comment about this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't believe that was intentional, he hijacks the back button so he can use it as an undo internally.
It's just an unfortunate design choice which should have been avoided.
„he hijacks the back button so he can“ - sounds pretty much intentional. No one would argue against an alert asking you if you want to leave without saving you work or sth similar, though.
honest bug :) should be fixed!
Page didn’t load right on mobile and then I couldn’t escape back to HN.
Maybe you can blame Apple and Safari, and maybe I’m unfair, but if that’s the first impression I get from something related to programming, well...
Exactly. Safari on MacOS has the same problem too.
You should complain to you browser vendor, not the website owner. Swiping back works just fine on Android.
Not in chrome/android on my side ... I had to long press the back arrow and select HN to come back here
Maybe OP‘s implementation of overriding the default browser behavior on Android just sucks ;)
Not on FF on my device...
Firefox 78.9.0esr on Debian Buster has the same problem