When you're watching a video and you go back, the url updates but the page doesn't refresh/redirect, the video just ends up restarting. Very annoying.
Oh well even HN will always mess up your scroll position when hitting back so it goes
But, taking it as true (for some arcane reason), then perhaps they should change the design of their site so that popping away from the timeline isn't a part of the normal usage flow!
Specifically, if you want to expand the conversation under a tweet, you tap it, which takes you to a new page; when you're done, you want to continue reading your timeline. If making the back button can't be made reliable, then it seems a design that simply expands the thread off to the right or inline below or in a popup, without leaving the timeline page, would work much better.
I think I found the problem.
Overall YouTube makes for a nice example of how modern design often makes the experience worse
But yeah the new design is pretty awful. No idea what they were thinking.
And for design, I'm actually harsh over stuff like the new "top comment" box that, when clicked on, /completely removes the normal comment interface/, shrinks the video, and moves the comments to a new and otherwise-completely-unseen comment interface to the right side of the video. Which is bizarre, inexplicable user experience and a fair amount worse than simply being a weird color.
Edit: this happens on Firefox on Windows. I haven't tried Chrome.
Just a reminder, at that time you couldn’t do console.log(), because it worked with the devtools open, but “console” would be null with the devtools closed, which is treacherous because it only bugged for non-dev users. As a bonus, IE would ask the user whether they wanted to debug.
But press Cmd+K to reach the address bar, or Cmd+W to close the tab: Nothing happens because Jira hijacks the keyboard.
It’s the big site challenge: Wreck the user experience and watch people who keep using it because they have to.
One of the things we discovered is that Youtube actually runs from three content delivery networks who all have to agree on what data is to be displayed. The user data, such as your profile, watch history, and subscriptions, are in the first CDN. The video description, title, and comments attached to the video are in the second. The video itself and related data such as ad placement, categorization, and closed captions, are on a third CDN.
If the CDNs don't agree or one doesn't get updated in time before the page draws itself, you get mismatched descriptions/titles, mismatched comments, or some of the strangeness people have noticed where the timeline "watched" preview in the thumbnail is wrong by showing the user stopped watching earlier in the video than they actually did.