A link back to the HN front page on the dead link page?

[Centigonal]

The "Unknown or expired link" page should redirect or link back to the HN front page. Adding this would make the site navigation experience more fluid.

Right now, this happens pretty often: 1 Click the "Next" button 2 Uh-oh, expired link 3 Hit back 4 Refresh 5 Click "Next" again

If we added a link or redirect, the process becomes a lot simpler: 1 Click the "Next" button 2 Back to main page 3 Click "Next" again

Furthermore, people who've been linked to expired URLS get a handy way back to the main page. Best of all, there's no need to rework any of the existing framework -- all you have to do is change deadlink!

[cd34]

I submitted a patch for that about 16 months ago, I assume the behavior is intentional or desirable.

Depending on the day, I can get through 2-3 pages of /newest before getting that. I probably miss quite a few decent posts that were entered overnight.

More annoying is typing a response to a comment, only to have it lose the session, you hit back and sometimes the browser tells you to refresh, losing your post. I've gotten burned on that on a few longer replies so, I figure the site prefers more concise answers.

[cardiffspaceman]

OR, fix pagination so it works when you click on the link at the bottom, no matter how slowly and thoughtfully you go through the articles.