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One of many things I hate on crappy modern web is messing with history (API). You click a interesting-looking link somewhere (like HN), go to page. You scroll down, either reading or just skimming, and every funcking header (or even something less important) add entry to you history. To get back to original site you have to click back like a million times.

Fuck everyone who does that.

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I'll also add 'infinite scroll'. Just use a pager. It's linkable, searchable, browseable, works correctly with the history. Infinite scroll breaks all of that for no good reason.

Not to mention the sites that make it impossible to see their footer because of infinite scrolling.

Yeah I love that. A site I used to work on put their currency and language picker there, but on half the pages you literally couldn’t reach the footer!

There is one site I always admire (non-ironic) in this regard - twitter. I scroll it's feed, click on tweet, dive into several sub-threads and then I can easily get back to main feed where I was. (Unless they fucked it up recently).

That's shiny example of doing it right. Too sad it's pretty much only one.

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