Hey @gitlab, you are redirecting pages to <https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/19/gcp-move-update/ …>. The redirect causes me to lose the URL where I came from. Can you stop doing that? Instead you should serve HTTP 503 Service Unavailable, and link to the blog post (or include its contents).
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Replying to @sortiecat @gitlab
It's also a browser UX fail. When restoring tabs browsers should not respect automatic redirects but replace them with an error page with a link. This would also fix major captive-portal UX fail.
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Likewise for ^R. If the originally-presented page was not redirected, the user does not want to be automatically redirected when reloading.
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Underlying principle: the URL bar contents should never be able to change except via some user interaction with the page.
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Another highly-broken case of this: clicking the back button should never be able to follow a redirect from the returned-to page. See: malvertising links you can't get back from without rapid-clicking.
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