Ask HN: Why clicking on favorite takes you to favorites page?

5 pointsyash81416 comments

It is kind of annoying. I just want to bookmark the post while I am reading comments no need to take me to different page.

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It's because HN uses very little Javascript. So this is the way it works, a simple get request to an endpoint.

I'm not on a computer to test this, but I wonder if it would be possible with the href attribute set to a fragment (#) and the ping attribute set to the URL where a favorite gets saved. I'm not sure if ping works without navigating to another page or not

I don't think the #-and-after portion gets submitted to the server. IIRC it's reserved exclusively for client-side use.

When in doubt I suggest simply emailing our moderator, TheDang: hn@ycombinator.com. They are the ultimate arbiter of these matters.

No, the fragment wouldn't get sent to the server at all. The ping part would though

My guess is it sends you to the favorite page so you are sure it has been saved there. I think it can be implemented differently, like the upvotes that are counted without a page change.

The endpoint could redirect back to the same page.

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