In choosing/setting up your new forum software, please ensure that when you reply to a comment that's in a long thread, once your reply is posted, the software takes you back to where you were in the thread when you posted it. I'm getting tired of having to hunt "now where was I?" :-(
Firefox. MacOS Ventura.
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When you submit or edit a post, you should be redirected to the permanent URL for that post. The URL is a link which specifies the page of the thread, which will be the most recent page, because new posts are appended to the end of a thread. The actual thing that tells the browser which post to scroll to on that page is a # fragment, which should uniquely identify that post. For example: https://paizo.com/threads/rzs44jg0?Posting-replies#2
Whem you submit a post, where is it taking you? Is your post on the page? The next time this happens, would you mind providing your browser’s URL?
A link to a quoted post would suffice when there is one, but I don't always do that. When I don't the affordance you suggest would work fine.
Another thing I've noticed is that when I click on a number in the "focused" list of posting, the number indicating some number of posts I haven't seen yet, I'm taken, at least in "product discussion" threads, to the top of the page where the first unread message is, and I have to hunt for the specific message. In non-product discussion threads I'm usually taken directly to the first unread message. This has been the case forever, on both Firefox and Safari. Occasionally I'll be taken to the bottom of a page when the first of one or two unreads is on the top of the next page.
In non-product discussion threads I'm usually taken directly to the first unread message. This has been the case forever, on both Firefox and Safari. Occasionally I'll be taken to the bottom of a page when the first of one or two unreads is on the top of the next page.
I cant speak to product threads, but it's been my experience that when I click on the number in parentheses that indicates unread posts, I'm taken to the last read post (i.e. the post right before the first unread post). I always assumed that this was intentional so that you can be reminded of the context that the first unread post may be replying to.
This has the side effect that if the first unread post is at the top of a new page, I'm taken to the bottom of the previous page, because that's where the last already-read post is.
I'm almost always using Chrome.
Having checked, I can verify for non-product threads the behavior that Andostre reports above. Product discussion threads behave differently. Speculating, this may have something to do with the fact that most times, if not always, the product discussion thread wants me to login.
ProTip: If that's your workflow, your best option is to middle-click the Reply link to open it in a new tab. Compose your reply, post it, and close the tab. Poof. You're back to where you were.