https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62266

--- Comment #16 from Tisza GergÅ‘ <[email protected]> ---
"I'll update this ticket's description to be the only possible technical
change, but I doubt that the product and UX teams will be interested in losing
the ability for people to share the image using the browser's URL."

That is an entirely different bug/feature request. I moved it to bug 66217.

Changing the URL without creating history entries, or removing some of the
existing history entries, is entirely possible technically (modern browsers
have replaceState; old browsers have location.replace - as long as you limit
URL changes to the hash part, the two behave pretty much identically). Facebook
does it, as you just said.

Whether it is a good idea from a usability point of view is a different issue -
one where flinging untested assumptions about user expectations at each other
is not going to be productive. Facebook nukes the history; Bing and Flickr
keeps it, so obviously neither approach can be a catastrophic failure. (Also,
we haven't received many complaints about this so far, which suggests this is
not a big problem for most users.)

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