Quiet browser history?

boomzilla

Scrolling through large topics generates a lot of activity in my browser history. I'd really like to be able to make that not happen. Looking at the code, I found evidence that this is possibly supported:

NodeBB/public/src/ajaxify.js at 9361ff07729bb6524752079fb5b4feb173d7d458 · NodeBB/NodeBB

Node.js based forum software built for the modern web - NodeBB/public/src/ajaxify.js at 9361ff07729bb6524752079fb5b4feb173d7d458 · NodeBB/NodeBB

GitHub (github.com)

...but I can't find any setting in my profile or in the admin controls to change this.

<baris>

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/3621

Not sure there is a fix. Calling history.replaceState() creates new entries in the history instead of replacing. Although it works properly when you click back.

boomzilla

Ah, right. I remember now. We had to get Discourse modified to not call replaceState() to stop that from happening.

julian

The main point here is that every time we modify the url to add the post index, it is a new resource, even though in reality, the end result is really the same.

We can't fault the browser for adhering to the spec, though I honestly don't know if we can resolve this one.

Here we change the url as you are scrolling, as opposed to recalculating the url when scrolling is finished, but besides that...