Why has the search system broken the “Back” button?

[ColinWright]

The interface to https://hn.algolia.com has changed, again, and now the back button is broken.

You're making it more and more annoying with every change. Please, stop it.

(No doubt I'm in a minority and everyone else loves it, but I do wonder whether you actually do any user testing, or if you just implement stuff because you think it's cool, and just honestly don't really care.)

[mtmail]

Don't like it either. I added the feedback to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912684

[DanBC]

There is no zooming on mobile. That makes search unusable for me now.

[wodenokoto → DanBC]

I don't understand why mobilephones respect the no zoom thing.

[dilap → wodenokoto]

Word. If you give webdevs a feature that can be abused to destroy usability, they will destroy usability.

[cpersona → DanBC]

It's a huge annoyance when sites do this. Typically it means that I won't see all of the content and that's never a good user experience.

[redox_]

Should be fixed now.

[ColinWright → redox_]

Thank you.