XF 2.1 Clicking a thread I've been participating in not taking me to last viewed/participated page

[NealC]

I've been participating in a long running thread. I visit the forum, click the thread, I'd prefer to go to my last page I read or posted. Instead it just takes me to the beginning so then I have to figure out where I left off last which is not efficient. Anyone to better handle this?

 

[Ozzy47]

Click on the date link not the thread title.

 

[HotRodCarts]

For me clicking on the date takes you to the last post. If there was other new posts before the date you have to scroll up.

 

[gerryvz]

I raised this same issue recently. It seems to be an intermittent bug that makes itself apparent in long (multi-page) threads, as well as threads with a lot of images/attachments that takes time to load. Evidently it is some sort of time-out issue having to do with the thread loading.

There's more here:

XF 2.1 - Inconsistent linking to newest posts in "New Posts" screen

When I show the "Home-->New Posts" listing of new posts in threads from my forum home screen, the unread posts in threads (since last session) are displayed in a list, all in bold. Things are set on my forum so when my members click on a bolded thread title in this list, they are then taken to...

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and especially here:

Partial fix - Alerts don't redirect you to the newest reply sometimes

Hello, sometimes when I click on an alert, it doesn't redirect me to the newest reply. Often for a thread with a lot of images. Not sure if this is a CDN issue or caching issue or a bug. As an example: When I click on the alert which is at the top, it should direct me to the post with...

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[HotRodCarts]

For me it happens on any thread no matter how long it is pics or no pics. I changed Read marking data lifetime: to 180 days in ACP and it helped but still happens in threads older than that if there's new replies if I haven't viewed the thread in more than 180 days. I have the issue on all XF2.x forums I visit with all browsers I use since XF2 was released.

 

[NealC]

What I've noticed is if you click on a thread that has new content it will take you to it. If you click on the thread after that then you're taken to the first post.

 

[Paul B]

That is the designed behaviour.

 

[gerryvz]

@Brogan is correct, and that's the behavior I see.

One exception to this is in the "Latest Posts" widget on the right side of the main screen, clicking on a listed thread (even if it's been read before) will bring you to the last post in the thread. Again, as it should.




I think the issue discussed above has been upon the initial click, after a thread has new content posted, it is intermittent (particularly with longer or image-heavy threads) in bringing the user to the newest, unread thread.