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So, obviously this isn't getting addressed this weekend (hope everyone is having fun, and man am I jealous), but:
Say I scroll all the way down to OTD and click in the FAWTL thread. Why I'm doing this is anyone's guess; let's just assume I have a few extra SAN points burning a hole in my pocket. (:-p) When I click 'Back' on my browser, my thought and, I guess, subconscious user expectation is for me to land on the main forum page, scrolled down to the bottom where the FAWTL thread is. Alternately, I could see being at the very top of the page as well - that would make some sense. Instead, I am placed back to the correct page, but I'm looking at the campaign journals section, which is no place near where I actually was.
Note that if you don't scroll at all on the second page (the FAWTL page, in this example), you're fine. But if you scroll on that page, when you hit 'back' you're unceremoniously dumped somewhere seemingly random on the front page. And who doesn't at least READ the page they chose? So, therein lies the problem.
A lot of this may simply be based on browser lag. The difference between the two is that if you jump back really quickly, your browser (typically, I use Firefox and get this, might not be true with IE/Chrome/etc.) doesn't bother reloading the page because you haven't been gone long, but on some forums if you hit Back after a certain amount of time it gets the page new and fresh.
When it does so, it attempts to put you back where you were viewing when it left off. Unfortunately, it says "Okay, I got you back where you were" before the browser is finished loading the refreshed page; thus, when it completes actually loading, you're scrolled to somewhere in the middle, because it doesn't continue to scroll you down as the page finishes loading and grows longer.
Also: FAWTL says to inform you that Sanity is a Playground for the Unimaginative =D
