A link back to the HN front page on the dead link page?
The "Unknown or expired link" page should redirect or link back to the HN front page. Adding this would make the site navigation experience more fluid.
Right now, this happens pretty often: 1 Click the "Next" button 2 Uh-oh, expired link 3 Hit back 4 Refresh 5 Click "Next" again
If we added a link or redirect, the process becomes a lot simpler: 1 Click the "Next" button 2 Back to main page 3 Click "Next" again
Furthermore, people who've been linked to expired URLS get a handy way back to the main page. Best of all, there's no need to rework any of the existing framework -- all you have to do is change deadlink!
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 16.5 ms ] threadDepending on the day, I can get through 2-3 pages of /newest before getting that. I probably miss quite a few decent posts that were entered overnight.
More annoying is typing a response to a comment, only to have it lose the session, you hit back and sometimes the browser tells you to refresh, losing your post. I've gotten burned on that on a few longer replies so, I figure the site prefers more concise answers.