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This site rendered my back button useless and trapped me on the site.

Yikes. Each step in the planning tool is a different "page" thanks to the hash in the url...were you clicking back through a bunch of stages to get off the site?

No, it just seems to have a redirect from plan_ahead to plan_ahead#dashboard that breaks the back button (at least on Firefox 3.6.20, Linux).

(I'm not sure what the original commenter's platform is though.)

Oh, yeah, I guess that's our Backbone redirect from the initial page to whatever the first "pane" would be. If we weren't using teh Ajax we'd do that, we'd use a 302 and then the browser history wouldn't get confused.

We'll figure out a fix for that. Thanks for the feedback.

Chrome on Windows 7

No matter how many times I pushed back I could not come back to the HackerNews article. I just cannot go backwards from the dashboard. This page = http://app.profitably.com/plan_ahead#dashboard

It does some kind of load/resolve thingy very quickly each time I press back. But nothing happens, still on Dash.

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