[confident_inept]

I'm not terribly interested in podcasts but I do love seeing what people create, so I gave it a click... and then couldn't back out to HN.

Why is your site back-button trapped?

[rzzzt]

I'm seeing this kind of complaint so frequently, it made me wonder if there is a software solution for it. Can we build a better back button?

[pvg]

There's a local non-technical solution in the site guidelines:

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

[zanethomas]

Hold the back button down until you get a list, then choose.

[carvking]

Build back better ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngF2cpoxkQw

[azdle]

It seems to work just fine in Firefox (on android, bit I would assume that doesn't matter). I see the pre-redirect page in the list when I hold back, but a single tap of back brings be back to HN.

I would imagine that it sees the `history.pushState()` or w/e without any interaction and knows that it's a dead state/page/(?).

[JustSomeNobody]

> Can we build a better back button?

Yes, don't break it to begin with.

[CWuestefeld]

Disrespect for the user.

If your desire to keep me on your side is, to you, more important than my ability to navigate as I please, then you're the not the kind of service I'm interested in.

While I'm commenting - your About page can't possibly pass accessibility guidelines for contrast ratios. It's very hard to read.

[tuxie_]

Come on man, it's just a faulty redirect that gets in the way. Fair feedback for the dev, sure, but no need to assume evil and disrespect.