Direct links don't work anymore

[cs1m0n]

Functionality implemented here introduces a bug when trying to navigate directly to an article. The route changes automatically to the last visited article.

Reported here and here.

I could reproduce it myself.

One possible solution is to add an additional check before it changes the route, if the url is the homepage, then redirect.

[cs1m0n]

FYI: I have pushed a quick-fix by commenting out those lines which redirect the user to the cached page.

[Dr-Wade]

The more I think about it, the less I'm convinced that this feature is actually a good idea.
I agree that a way to fix it is to only change the route if going to the homepage in the first place, but I feel this brings some inconsistency... Maybe we can try it out a bit on dev, and see if this makes sense before we push it to prod?