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Why on earth the article linked to archive when the original is still up? https://slashdot.org/story/99/02/12/1429236/ask-slashdot-how...

Is this another one of those "the old comments / commenters were better" nonsense?

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Three comments now pointing this out. I guess I'm still kind of new here, so I didn't know submitting the exact canonical URL was so valued. The main reason was that I noticed that the comments had been shuffled in a redesign, making the original threads harder to read (other reply [0]).

I do see now how unnecessary Wayback links make it harder to find previous/dupe submissions. Though, Wayback links that are out of necessity aren't uncommon on HN; another case for more advanced URL deduping?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30613493

well, it's not so much that I was frowning upon it, it's more that I was genuinely curious. It seemed like an odd thing to do.

Maybe the submitter prefers a functioning back button that doesn’t spam you when you try to leave.

I haven't visited /. in ages. I didn't know how far it had fallen and am shocked it still gets traffic, given this back button behavior. It is indeed a good reason to never post direct links.

Slashdot got sold to Dice a decade ago and went downhill from there. After their absolutely horrible redesign, which I guess they shelved because the site looks as I remember it, the community sort of split into two with plenty people moving over to https://soylentnews.org/

Here's the first SoylentNews submission from 2014: https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1

Disclaimer: I'm just (barely) remembering stuff here. No idea what happened to either site past 2014.

What 'back button behavior' are we talking about... noticed nothing when just clicking through a few articles and back, and then back out of slashdot completely.

Though it might have been blocked by ublock-origin or some other addon without noticiing it.

When it functions as intended, the site hijacks the back button to offer you a series of “articles” to read “before you go.”

I’m currently viewing on Safari on iOS through a firewall with a spam deny list. Whether the ad hits my deny list or not, the only way to go back from the site is to hold the back button and manually select a different page.

On mobile Safari, /. "traps" you on their site by causing the back button/back swipe gesture to return you back to their site. I am not sure exactly how -- haven't looked at the code.

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