This link: [image] doesn’t do what it says - it seems to bring you back to whatever page you reached the flag from, which could be the main page (for curators), the page for a photo, etc. Should probably either change the destination of this link, or just rename it to “Back”.

@kueda I see that this issue was addressed by adding a “View All Flags” link at the far right of the flag detail page. But I still find myself getting distracted and misled by the “Back to Flags” link at far left. As cassi mentioned in the github issue, it just seems to duplicate the functionality…

Website, Chrome Clicking ‘back to flags’ at top left while at this flag doesn’t take you back to flags, and indeed doesn’t take you anywhere; it merely refreshes the page. Oddly, this hyperlink behaves differently elsewhere too. If you click on the first flag on the homepage right now, and then cl…

OK, so if you click that hyperlink I’ve embedded above, and then click ‘back to flags’ it will take you back to the forum homepage. So it seems like the ‘back to flags’ hyperlink will always take you back to the main page from where you clicked the flag i.e. if you originally opened the flag from t…

[image] thebeachcomber: Clicking ‘back to flags’ at top left while at this flag doesn’t take you back to flags, and indeed doesn’t take you anywhere; it merely refreshes the page. I just figured this one out; if you click on a flag (from anywhere), resolve the flag, and then try to use ‘back …

I moved your posts to this existing report.

Thanks Jane, was my bad here for not searching for this issue before posting

Do you think it’s worth having this link at all? I think I agree with @jdmore that it may be more trouble than it’s worth.

My thoughts on the linked github issue: Yeah, I think a “View all flags” nav link that always goes to /flags is sufficient. The current back button is duplicative to my browser back button. (I would only care about going back to or ever seeing https://www.inaturalist.org/OBJECT/####/flags if ther…

"Back to flags" link doesn't always lead back to flags

Bug Reports

bouteloua December 19, 2019, 6:03pm 2

https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2108

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"Back to flags" link doesn't always lead back to flags

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