# Loading gets stuck after navigating back from external link

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/loading-gets-stuck-after-navigating-back-from-external-link/38432>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [25.Январь.2016 08:58:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/loading-gets-stuck-after-navigating-back-from-external-link/38432 "2016-01-25T08:58:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [25.Январь.2016 10:30:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/loading-gets-stuck-after-navigating-back-from-external-link/38432/2 "2016-01-25T10:30:54Z")

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> [@fefrei](#):
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> In Safari on iOS (9.2.1), however, thinks work differently: Discourse loads surprisingly quickly, and shows the loading spinner. Sometimes, this completes quickly and you see the topic; but most of the time, you get stuck on the spinner until you reload the page.

Yes I repro this all the time on BBS. I don’t know that I have _ever_ seen it outside Mobile Safari though.

@eviltrout can you have a look? Trivially reproducible on iPad when visiting external links and then going back.

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