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Why doesn't Lemmy have a back button? (bikersgo.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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Why doesn't Lemmy have a back button?

It's really confusing me why Lemmy doesn't have a back button when you are browsing via the web. Is this something that just got missed or is it meant to be like that?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ahhh... iPhone. That's the issue. Android has a back button but for some reason iPhones have always preferred gestures and "the one button".

I don't mean to be tech elitist but browsers and other phones have built in ways to easily manage navigation. I'd rather that sites didn't adopt extraneous UI elements to make up for device shortcomings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even if there is an issue, it would hit every single website out there. Like, Option 1: the browser works the same way all of the others out there do. Option 2: All of the websites out there adapt to one browser. There is no way that Option 2 is a sane choice.

How did this happen, anyway?

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https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/syyab1/the_reason_theres_no_back_button/

The reason there's no back button:

To sum up the video, Steve Jobs wanted a back button but human interface designer Imran Chaudhri convinced him that the back button would be unreliable and complicated and create a "trust issue" for users. The argument was that on Androids the back button might perform different/inconsistent actions: return you to a previous menu, a previous app or the home screen.

Well, having websites individually implement a back button sure isn't gonna be more-consistent from a UI standpoint.

EDIT: And I kind of suspect that swiping is probably also less-consistently-used, just because there are going to be programs where one can't reasonably dedicate swiping to "back", so this creates a situation where you have feature collision with entirely unrelated features.