To be clear, that last part isn’t just from here. Occasionally getting a Substack link that insists on surrounding the post with the rest of the feed/home interface and being unable to find how to get the same post without that has frustrated me before, and I think Reddit’s version of something similar has frustrated me, and maybe one or two other sites doing similar things… in general it seems like it’s a really easy source of “75% of it works, have fun whacking your metaphorical limbs on the edges”. Which is sort of still indirectly relevant as an influence on responses to the pattern even though some of it is not in your control. 🙂
I am curious what alternatives you’re looking at now!
Thanks for the extra context. I mean, if we can get our design right then maybe we can inspire the rest ;)
There’s a new experimental feature of React, <Activity>, that’d let us allow for navigation to a different page and then returning to the feed without losing your place. I haven’t tried to make it work yet but it’s high on the to-do list.
Oh no, that sounds no good at all. You might be relieved to I have on my to do to to explore overlay alternative design.
To be clear, that last part isn’t just from here. Occasionally getting a Substack link that insists on surrounding the post with the rest of the feed/home interface and being unable to find how to get the same post without that has frustrated me before, and I think Reddit’s version of something similar has frustrated me, and maybe one or two other sites doing similar things… in general it seems like it’s a really easy source of “75% of it works, have fun whacking your metaphorical limbs on the edges”. Which is sort of still indirectly relevant as an influence on responses to the pattern even though some of it is not in your control. 🙂
I am curious what alternatives you’re looking at now!
Thanks for the extra context. I mean, if we can get our design right then maybe we can inspire the rest ;)
There’s a new experimental feature of React, <Activity>, that’d let us allow for navigation to a different page and then returning to the feed without losing your place. I haven’t tried to make it work yet but it’s high on the to-do list.