Why is the desktop interface and mobile app look so 2012?

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@alys

The issue described in the thread you linked is that you can’t go from an unfiltered dashboard to a filtered one by just editing the URL and hitting enter. You have to either reload after hitting enter, or open the filtered view by entering the URL in a new tab. Similarly you can’t go from filtering by one tag to another tag without doing one of those workarounds. I believe this is because of the way browsers handle #... in URLs, rather than a Beeminder-specific problem.

Seems like it should be easy to fix. When the page loads it calls a filterOnTags function with the hash’s value:

filterOnTags(location.hash.replace("#", ""));

If it did that not only on page load, but also whenever the hashchange event fires, it should work even when you just change the hash without opening a new page.

That is, I suspect that all that Beeminder needs to add in order to fix this annoyance is something like:

window.addEventListener('hashchange', () => {
  filterOnTags(location.hash.replace("#", ""));
});