Exiting channel group returns to main page instead of subscriptions page

[simonboy77]

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Affected version

0.28.3

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Open the hamburger menu on the left.
2. Click Subscriptions.
3. Go into a channel group.
4. Click the back arrow top-left
5. Now you should be back to the main page instead of the subscriptions page.

This also happens when at step 3 you click on one of the subscriptions

Expected behavior

I expect exiting the channel group to take me back where i came from.

Actual behavior

Exiting the channel group takes me back to the main screen.

Screenshots/Screen recordings

Screen_recording_20260209_180506.webm

Logs

No response

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android Studio 2025.1.3

Affected device model

Medium Phone API 36.1

Additional information

Maybe this is intended behaviour, but it seemed incorrect to me so I thought I'd mention it.

[aivelon]

Looking at the code, it looks like this is intentional as you suspected. Pressing back from anywhere has the following behaviour:

1. Goes to comment replies if a previous comment replies was opened before the current one (this will change soon since only one comment replies will be opened).
2. For any page (except multiple comment replies as mentione above), the back action tries to go back to search page if search was opened, else it goes to the home page (the main page).

There is no other path for going back from anywhere and this is applicable globally to all back actions.
So, pressing back from the channel group page goes back to the main page from where it was opened.

Ofcourse this can be conditionally changed for this particular type of page in subscriptions page but we first need to see if we want to implement this.

An argument can be made against this change which is that opening a particular channel from the subscriptions page should also return to the subscriptions page. Only applying this back behaviour for channel groups page and not for the normal channels page opened from the subscriptions page seems a bit inconsistent.
I am no UI expert, so need inputs from others I guess.