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Comment by tga | Hacker News Reader

Kit Kat's homepage is currently a monstrosity. Scrolling down the page pushes a new history URL every half page, using the back button is then essentially broken (on Firefox at least) and actually getting back to the page that unfortunately sent you there requires something like 20 clicks.

Not so bad joke otherwise, but the history hijacking made it a crappy experience and I couldn't close the tab quickly enough.

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Honestly: you're being a snob. The page is designed to be scrolled down once, chuckled at, and closed. And I did, and it works for me. Sitting on our high horses and demanding that Nestle's corporate IT department churn out a site worthy of YC-driven-multi-round-venture-funding is counterproductive and unkind. They had a cute idea, probably on short notice, and they got it done.

I will say that I'm actually really liking this sort of whimsy. It's distressingly rare in the bigcorp world (even in candy, I guess) to see companies poke fun at their established products like this. I like it.

I still won't eat them though.

and closed.

If you didn't "Open In New Tab" the link, and value the current tab's browsing history, this will be very annoying via "back back back back back aw crap how far must I go back back click-hold-back good grief click meh that was fun until it wasn't."

or hold down on the back button.

My browser can display the entire history and allows me to skip right to where I want to go.

Mine too, tga you should just update your browser and stop being a party pooper.

I wish developers were more aware of ReplaceState, which updates the URL but deletes the previous state. I usually put a condition check in any state saving that checks to see which is more appropriate. For example, in a page of popup videos associated with URLs I might push the first state so the user can hit back once to get the normal URL, but replace from then on so the number of back actions to leave never exceeds two.

The webpage is a monstrosity because of a problem on the back button? Wow, hackernews comments never cease to amaze me when it comes to finding something negative to say.

Outsourced design agencies hired by big corps aren't usually known for their respect of web accessibility.

I found the KitKat site to flow better than the Android site it was parodying. In Chrome, even.

>> Kit Kat's homepage is currently a monstrosity [...] the history hijacking made it a crappy experience and I couldn't close the tab quickly enough.

I am hoping this is a parody of the average Hacker News comment on an HTML5 site.

It actually makes it great for sharing certain funny bits with friends.

Ran here to say this. The site quickly went from being a hilarious parody I was going to forward to friends to an infuriating display of bad design that I'll now keep to myself.

>> infuriating display of bad design

Perspective please!

Seems pretty reasonable to me that on a page like this every piece of content deserves its own history state. At least it’s a completely valid view, nothing to go apeshit over.

Hold down the back button and you can go back 1 to 12 pages at a time, depending on which one you pick.

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