It is incredibly frustrating to be penalised for going away from the site for a few minutes to read a long, insightful article. The links to deep articles are why I read HN.
At the very least, the expired link page should provide a button to reload the page. The reloaded page will contain articles I've already seen, but it beats having to start on page 1 again, after manually editing the URL, and clicking "more" until I find my place again.
Ideally I'd like the site to try to load the index link, and if it's timed out, fallback seamlessly to loading the page by number.
At the very least, the expired link page should provide a button to reload the page. The reloaded page will contain articles I've already seen, but it beats having to start on page 1 again, after manually editing the URL, and clicking "more" until I find my place again.
Ideally I'd like the site to try to load the index link, and if it's timed out, fallback seamlessly to loading the page by number.