Because your browser has one. Why would you need a second?
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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And there's also always backspace/alt+left
Not everyone knows shortcuts, great for those that are wanting to be more quick / know the shortcuts but for a general user experience it could be frustrating especially when you are browsing in a webapp on an iphone or something.
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.
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?
kagis
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.
iPhone you just swipe right to navigate to the previous web page.
Because back buttons are a basic feature of web browsers.
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Bro it's a simple question. I hope the Fediverse can grow and asking this question as I know some may get upset / confused with no back button on screen.
It was a joke.
Cool I just don't always understand jokes due to my autism. Sorry I took it as you telling me to fuck off back to centralized social media.
Here's a little something I learned many decades ago:
When you read something someone has written, always remember that you didn't hear the person's voice what they wrote, and you didn't see their body language. So you're missing 67% of the information that person meant to convey.
Your brain naturally makes up the missing information: it might assign a male or female voice to the author of the text, and it might imagine them smiling or being angry, or in some other state of mind if the text can have several meaning, like in the case of irony of sarcasm (that isn't explicitely marked as such with "/s").
My advice is this: when you think someone is insulting you, re-read the sentence, but imagining the person smiling or laughing while writing it instead: does it work too? Does the sentence work better with the author smiling or being angry in your mind's eye?
This has helped me immensely online. It might help you too.
I have more than just autism, I have morbid anxiety. Due to both of these I can't really imagine body language and things, sure I've got better with it in person but most of the time if they are telling me to go somewhere then it's most likely as they fucking hate my or don't understand that I won't get they are joking.
Well then err on whatever you read being written in a positive tone if the intent is ambiguous. If you're wrong, the worst thing that can happen to you is that you look overly optimistic. But at least you won't raise your blood pressure feeling aggression that may not be there.
I mean well incidentally. I don't want to sound patronizing.
You don't need to apologise.
Given that you thought they were trying to provoke you, your response was really relaxed and from it you got the clarity you needed.
Navigating the world of neurotypicals is hard but I think you're doing fine.
Not everyone answers simple questions
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Imo that's one of the lesser QoL issues. I find it more annoying that there's no pagination other than "Next" button. Why don't we have "Prev", "First", "Last" and page numbers? That's quite basic pagination functionality.