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Signup: Pressing browser "Back" button before confirming choice of plan takes you to empty /sites

Open jasmussen opened this issue 9 months ago • 11 comments

Context and steps to reproduce

  • Visit the logged out homepage.
  • Click "Get Started".
  • Sign up with email, add an email, press next.
  • Search for a domain.
  • Click the free option. Note: don't press continue!
  • Click the browser "back" button.

Result: instead of being taken to the email signup screen, you're taken to an empty "my-sites" screen.

GIF of this flow:

Image

This is disruptive to the flow, as you lose your place.

Site owner impact

Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Moderate

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

Platform revenue

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

Don't press the back button!

If you do, you can click "Add site", and you're back in the flow.

Platform

Simple

jasmussen avatar Jan 23 '25 10:01 jasmussen