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.
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.