Include the story viewer in the navigation stack
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	SBisson
	Jul 27 2022, 1:16 PM

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Background

Including the StoryViewer in the navigation stack means it can be closed with the browser back button, among other things.

Consider this example

Go to Wikipedia Cat article
Click on a link inside the article to go to the Lion article
The Lion article has stories. Click on a story to open the viewer
Click the browser back button
1. The viewer closes and you stay on the Lion article (because it is included in the browser navigation stack) OR
2. You go back to the Cat article (it is indeed the previous page from the browser's perspective and the viewer being just a popup is not part of the navigation stack)

If we go with option A, there are more questions about whether viewing several stories represent several navigation entries or the same one.

Decision

Based on our discussion, we are going ahead with the option A as its possible readers might be interested to learn more about the article after going through stories, media viewer also has a similar behavior on our platforms. Viewing several stories can represent same navigation so click on back button from any story would lead to the article.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Include the story viewer in the navigation stack	mediawiki/extensions/Wikistories	master	+1 -1

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		Open		None	T318901 Contributor/Reader experience on Wikistories
		Resolved		hueitan	T313909 Include the story viewer in the navigation stack

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SBisson created this task.Jul 27 2022, 1:16 PM

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To me, option A looks better approach to deal with back button as its possible readers might be interested to learn more about the article after going through stories. Viewing several stories can represent same navigation so click on back button from any story would lead to the article itself.

@SBisson on mobile, device back key is what we refer to browser back button right?

In T313909#8122415, @SGautam_WMF wrote:

To me, option A looks better approach to deal with back button as its possible readers might be interested to learn more about the article after going through stories. Viewing several stories can represent same navigation so click on back button from any story would lead to the article itself.

That makes sense. This is what the Media Viewer does as well.

@SBisson on mobile, device back key is what we refer to browser back button right?

Yes

SGautam_WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 10 2022, 6:00 AM

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SBisson renamed this task from Should the story viewer be in the navigation stack? to Include the story viewer in the navigation stack.Aug 10 2022, 12:46 PM

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