The Independent tries to hijack their reader's swipe meant to leave the site to send them further into it instead

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• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t use smart phones a lot, so feel free to disregard my opinion. But to me, swiping to the left means “next”, like turning a page in a book. If you wanted to leave the site, you’d go ‘back’ to where you came from, which means swiping from left to right to me.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    On many Android phones swiping from the outside edge of the screen inwards either from the left or right edge, it behaves like you tapped the “back” button. It is extremely useful to get out of for example an article that was opened on Lemmy or simply navigating through menus on your phone.

    A swipe either left or right from the middle-ish of the screen is what you would expect to take you from the previous or next article. Not from the edge.

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    • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My android doesn’t seem to do that.

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  • hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s pretty much the standard.

    • On iPhones and iPads, swipe from the left to go back. In a book on such a device, swipe from the right to go forward.
    • On eReaders, particularly Kindles, tap on the right side to go forward; tap on the left side to go back.
    • On Android with gestures enabled, swipe from the left side to go back. Or… swipe from the right side to go back. Counter intuitive but apparently at least one person uses that.

    Assuming OP has standard gestures enabled, they could still swipe from the left side.

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    • three@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right-handed android user. I shan’t be reaching across my screen with my right thumb to use my gestures “correctly”.

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    • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I shouldn’t have to adjust my grip on my phone to change the way I swipe to exit the website because that website decided to replace a commonly used functionality to make it more difficult to leave their website. I kid you not I almost didn’t see that button because my thumb was naturally placed in front of it.

      There is already a way to make a gesture that navigates “previous” or “next” by swiping left or right. It is by swiping from the center of the screen outwards and it is how that website should have made that gesture work if they didn’t want to interfere with Android navigation gesture users.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Buttons over gestures for life!

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  • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nah. We can expect better behavior from the app.

    Gestures are muscle memory and faster.

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re learned muscle memory.

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Buttons will always be better than gestures, if not for this very situation.

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• diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Something similar happens with apps that put ad banners on the bottom of the screen and make the app full screen. You try to swipe up to see the navigation bar and most of the time end up tapping the ad.

  It’s a shitty and deceptive pattern.

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That seems to indicate the proper swiping to go to the next article (right to left). Swiping left to right would close the article is the expected behavior for me.

  What I hate is sites like AP News where if you swipe left to right to leave the site you instead go back a page and land on their carousel and have to hit back again. Fuck dark patterns.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That is also the proper swiping to go back in the browser this was being used in. More importantly, I was visiting this page from a Lemmy link and the only way to get out and back to Lemmy is to swipe from the outside of the screen inwards on my device.

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• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not trying to be dismissive of an obviously shitty practice but do people not understand how a back button works?

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  • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The swipe in is a system back. It works on every app and between apps, and it works anywhere on the right side of the screen, instead of having to reach wherever your app back button is, if it’s not collapsed and has to be scrolled in to view as well.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Is this some kind of iOS thing? Android does not have a universal swipe action for backing out of apps, and you can also make the bottom control buttons never hide themselves.

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• admiralpatrick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Seems more like a genuine feature to me.

  I don’t know how many requests I’ve seen for Lemmy apps to be able to swipe between posts in the feed.

  Dr Cox saying “The answer is ’ lot’”

  Seems that’s basically what they’re doing here.

  But also, gesture navigation is terrible, I hate it, and always turn on 3-button navigation when I get a new phone anyway.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ever since I tried gesture I never went back to buttons. I don’t even need to adjust my hand position to get out of a page and it’s no problem provided I’m not on a site that puts a different function exactly where my thumb was going to swipe. It’s a personal preference.

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