Show HN: Space Invaders in the URL(arnaud.at)

38 pointsby arnaudsm7 tahun yang lalu21 comments

arnaud.at

Show HN: Space Invaders in the URL

https://arnaud.at/emoji

12 comments

adtac7 tahun yang lalu

WARNING: this completely obliterates your browser history. Open this only in a private browsing widow.

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mrzool7 tahun yang lalu

Flagged. This doesn’t belong on the front page.

arnaudsm7 tahun yang lalu

I am sorry about that, it was just a funny experiment.

I thought it was acceptable considering that you accepted a similar post 6 months ago, which stayed on the frontpage for a long time : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19679890

_ph_7 tahun yang lalu

I really like your experiment - but you should put it behind the landing page which explains the consequences for the browsing history and recommends using a private tab. Then its absolutely ok and should be posted again on HN.

mrzool7 tahun yang lalu

Your experiment is definitely fun and interesting but has pretty annoying side effects, like dumping dozens of entries in the browser history and making the back button unusable. Some people don’t mind, others do.

Volv7 tahun yang lalu

Its interesting to me how many people complain about the history / request a back button / link.

I agree that sites shouldn't break history but tabs have made the back button almost obsolete to me.

Everything is middle clicked for new tab / middle clicked away when done.

I messed around with the site. Middle clicked it away and ended up here as I'd opened the comments in a new tab before I started. Didn't even notice the history issue.

_ph_7 tahun yang lalu

Indeed, in my normal browsing habits, I rarely rely on the back button, as it usually forces a page reload which is very slow. Like you, I am using a stack of tabs instead. On mobile though, I use the back button more, as tab creation is not as easy (why no browser does this with a 2-finger tab, I don't understand).

However, the side effect of this goes much further, it also hoses your browsing history, and sometimes you really need that. So while this is a cool hack, there shouldn't be a direct link on the HN front page.

Lynbarry7 tahun yang lalu

Have you ever browsed on mobile?

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robbrown4517 tahun yang lalu

Ha. Pretty awesome. No luck using the back button to get back to Hacker News, but I guess that's unsurprising.

mfgs7 tahun yang lalu

Cool! Firefox on mobile doesn't render the emojis though, just long strings of Unicode strings.

_ph_7 tahun yang lalu

Please remove the direct link from the front page as it has negative effects on the browser due to screwing up the browser history. This link should be embedded in the post with a proper warning.

hutattedonmyarm7 tahun yang lalu

For those on desktop Safari: You have to enable "Show full website address" in its "advanced" settings tab

kevinventullo7 tahun yang lalu

I couldn’t figure out how to do this on Chrome for iOS. The relevant flag does not seem to exist.

rolltiide7 tahun yang lalu

Quite confused on iphone safari and then to find the back history was hijacked as an integral component of this game

halotrope7 tahun yang lalu

Very nice! However breaking the back button is very bad UX (remember ad-stuffed pages that would not let go back to google). I think it should be possible to change the hash without adding a new page by not using history API.

jwilk7 tahun yang lalu

They are using location.hash.

history.replaceState() wouldn't break the back button, but apparently history API is throttled in some browsers; see the "One Last Thing" section on https://matthewrayfield.com/articles/animating-urls-with-jav... .

tobyhinloopen7 tahun yang lalu

I should have known better to click this link

MulliMulli7 tahun yang lalu

Cool stuff. A back button/link would be nice though.

bananocurrency7 tahun yang lalu

tempodox7 tahun yang lalu

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