When navigating posts in the feed, the URL is changed to each active post. This means that when the page is reloaded, Alexandrite goes to that page instead of the active feed. In the above screenshot, I was browsing all, but refreshing the page left me on the post that was active.

Perhaps a fix might be to append the active post to the URL? Something like:

https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/all#post/5936117

  • sheodox@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is intentional, but I’ll probably be changing it.

    When you click a post while in a feed it changes the URL so it’s easier for people to share links to posts, as people probably are most used to copying a URL out of the address bar to send to people. It causes a lot of issues though, like the one you mentioned, and the ‘back’ button on your browser basically doesn’t work either. Because of all of that I’m probably going to remove that feature, and make a more prominent “share” button somewhere.

    • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I was just about to make a post about this very issue, I’m glad you are aware of it. Looking forward to getting that share button (and the back button working properly again)!

      Thank you!