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?

@[email protected]

      • Samantha Xavia@bikersgo.socialOP
        24·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
          14·
          3 days ago

          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.

          • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
            4·
            3 days 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?

            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.

    • Samantha Xavia@bikersgo.socialOP
      218·
      3 days ago

      Not everyone is used to pressing back and forwards on there browser and it will often be hidden if you use the page as web-app through certain devices.

        • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          first thing i do on a new browser install is rearrange the toolbar a bit.

          • DecentM@lemmy.ml
            12·
            3 days ago

            That’s the most cursed toolbar I’ve seen and I love it! Kinda like vertical tabs were at first sight I guess

            • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              when i first started doing this years ago in the early versions of firefox, the back button was bigger than the rest.

              but i’ve long since gotten used to it. and i like it a lot better in the middle than way tf over on the left side. it’s closer to all the other stuff up there (such as the extension buttons, which i use frequently) and to the scroll bars–which are largely unneeded with scroll wheels or touch these days, but i didn’t have a wheely mouse way back when.

              the only thing that would take me up to the top left was the menu bar, but i don’t use that much anymore with the hamburger menu on the far right, so the menu bar is off (alt brings it back).

              re-enabling the separate search box is significant. suggestions (the ones that transmit keystrokes to the search engine) are disabled in the address bar, but not the search box.

              the button to bring-up the sidebar is logically placed–above where the sidebar appears.

              the bookmark toolbar, which is not visible here because it’s set to only show on ‘newtab’ has the bookmark menu icon on its far left before the bookmarks themselves, and the ‘most visited’ smart boomkark is re-enabled up there too.