The discussion revolves around a bug where clicking on a link to a deleted article causes the browser to jump to a random spot on the page. jidanni reported the issue and provided a screenshot, suggesting that a message like “this content is not available” should be displayed at the top of the page. However, some users, including Moin, did not experience the issue.
jidanni specified that the issue occurs on Chrome Dev 113 for Android. mattdm suggested that the problem might be due to the site being squeezed into a small window on mobile devices, causing rough edges. Falco agreed, providing a screenshot of the issue and stating that the UI may not work well with tiny screens and large font sizes.
I found bug: if you click on a link to a deleted article, the browser just flies to some random spot. Test with:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/upload-100-ugly-truth/257677
There should probably be a message, just like on Facebook, “this content is not available” or something.
Wait! I see that it indeed actually does shows those words. But it’s not at the top of the user’s screen on some browsers. The user is left looking a little below those words.
Maybe you should tell which browsers “some browsers” are.
For me it works as expected
Chrome Dev 113 (113.0.5637.4) for Android. Thanks.
This seems likely to be another effect of squeezing the site into a very small window (due to scaling settings on your phone).
You can see another obvious such effect on the browser URL area — “meta.discourse.org” doesn’t even fit.
I’m not saying it shouldn’t work better in this situation, just that you are exposing a corner case and it is not surprising that there are rough edges.
Just curious, how does the URL bar look when you use Chrome instead of the WPA?
And by the way, where does the link land too there?
Also one might need to close the browser first to reproduce consistently.
