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?

@asklemmy@lemmy.world

    • 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
        15·
        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.

        • talEnglish
          5·
          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.