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The feeback was always there - clear, unmistakable, universal across sites.

It wasn't clear for lots of users. There were common stories of people getting a connection error and refreshing a page only to find their order on an ecommerce site had been taken twice, or that a comment they'd made had been submitted a second time, or that a request to delete something had actually worked but the second request threw up an error because it couldn't be deleted again so it looked like it had failed. These aren't so much of an issue today because browsers warn about form resubmission, but let's not forget that server-side rendered websites in the past were absolutely riddled with UX problems and bugs.

That's not a defence of SPAs, far too many still get the basics wrong, but if you believe it was better when devs made "classical" sites I think there's some decidedly rose-tinted nostalgia going on.




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