[gwbas1c]

I don't get the navigation pattern on the page. When I click on a link it opens a panel that I can't close, but then if I push refresh I'm taken to a page with a broken back button.

IMO: Just do a normal site where links take you to pages. Don't be creative with the UI. Maybe you could use some bog-standard wiki software?

The content itself looks very valuable, but because the UI is so bonkers, it's just too hard to use or link to.

[jiyuhtrfdrct]

> Just do a normal site

It actually used to be normal HTML... the site is the first wiki. For some reason it was reimplemented as a broken JS app.

[twic]

A while ago, Ward had some sort of idea about next-level hypertext:

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/

But his implementation of it for some reason involved rewriting it as an SPA, which he entirely botched.

[marcosdumay]

Whoever designed this site spent a great deal of effort to make it behave like this.

Adding my opinion, also let the text use the page width. Limiting it to 120 characters or whatever is fine, but what this site does is really not.

[codetrotter]

> When I click on a link it opens a panel that I can't close, but then if I push refresh I'm taken to a page with a broken back button.

On mobile I just tap outside of the panel to close it. Probably on desktop it will close as well if you click outside of it?

[enobrev]

Unfortunately not. I thought this thread was being overly-picky until I opened the link. This is awful.

[donatj]

It really is a shame all this interesting information is stuck in this bizarre unusable site.

Update - took me a solid 3 minutes of futzing with it to figure out you can close something by clicking on it's parent. Clicking on the grey area does not work.

[marginalia_nu]

Seems to work if you right click and open in a new tab. Although I do agree it's a bit of an accomplishment to break an otherwise already working browser feature. Sadly not an uncommon one.

[yosef123]

I agree, this also breaks the reader feature on iOS