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back arrow to recent activity

STR:

  1. Click your username
  2. On the "stats" tab, click on "recent"
  3. Click any question
  4. Press "Back" in browser.

Actual:

You're back to the list of questions sorted by "votes"

Expected:

You're back exactly where you were.

(It is also currently impossible to bookmark the "my questions by recency" page.)

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First up, changing the sort order does not really count as navigation, and why should it? You are getting the exact same information, but just in a different order. The data being sorted with JS is the ideal solution.

To fix the broken navigation, I would suggest the use of #anchors to indicate the current sort method. /users/131346/joshhunt would give me my/the default sort method, but when you click on votes, the URL changes to /users/131346/joshhunt#sort-by-votes in order to make the back buttons work. The anchor name could be as verbose as needed because anchors are never sent to the server as a part of the URL.

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  • Yeah, that seems to be the most common way to fix this. I take your point about how it's not exactly "navigation" when you change the sort order.
    – RomanSt
    Commented Nov 19, 2009 at 15:57
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Turning JS off leads me to this page: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/api/useranswers.html?userid=135197&page=1&pagesize=30&sort=recent

Ain't pretty (and you'll need to put your own userID in), but it works. Ajax in general is much nicer than proper links for things like sorting - shouldn't have to reload everything to sort one item!

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  • I got to that page too by copying link location and just going to it. It's not pretty indeed. Re "nicer" - that's subjective :) I think it's nicer when "back" and bookmarks work. AJAX doesn't have to break them though.
    – RomanSt
    Commented Nov 19, 2009 at 15:56

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