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A lie down with a cold compress might be in order @HeidiHeidi

none of the links in HeidiHeidis post have #latest at the end of the URL. you can see the URLs they posted if you quote the post.

This one I accessed from the bookmarks list - has the #latest tag, and brought me correctly to the first unread post (hurray!)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058199770/liveline-thread-with-no-name-host-with-no-shame#latest

This one also..... #latest tag, brought me to correct location.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057761511/your-own-pictures-of-bad-parking-no-chat-24h-ban#latest

Suddenly all the links from the bookmarks thread are behaving themselves beautifully! But how long will it last???????

This doesn't have the #latest tag.... accessed from main home page. Brought me to top of the page containing the last post I had read (not the last page of the thread)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058131867/emerald-airlines-new-kid-in-town

It is but nice to have somebody else confirm.

a quick check on mobile shows that links from the main page do have #latest at the end.

What's the story with the new navigation on the front mobile page there is no way to collapse it back to the start.

Never mind it's gone now

Nothing beats testing in production.

THIS IS ALL A BIT STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, FOR WHICH APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE!

@Boards.ie: Niamh

More testing of where you get brought to in a thread, depending on what you click - but on mobile this time.

Clicking into threads from the main page

Bookmarked thread - brought me straight to first unread post.

Not bookmarked thread, but have read it up to a point already, showing as having 10 new posts - brought me to a random post in the middle of the second page of two - turns out I had read up to the last post on the first page before.

Not bookmarked thread, only one page long so far, showing as having 5 new posts - brought me to the first unread post.

Not bookmarked thread, very long, had read so far into it a while ago, loads of new posts since - brought me to a random posts on the page following the one I'd last read to

Not bookmarked thread, had read so far into it, loads of new posts since - again brought me to a post in the middle of the page following the one I'd last read to

Not bookmarked thread - 2 pages long, had read so far into the first page - clicking brought me to a random post further down the first page than the last post I'd read.

Clicking into threads from bookmarks list

Bookmarked thread, click into from bookmarks list - think it brought me to the first unread post.

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The above was all yesterday, 17/1/22

I was prepared to say that from the bookmarks list, you'd get brought to the first unread post. From the main menu, a lot more unreliable.

Today, 18/1/22, the first thread I clicked into was from the bookmarks list, and I got brought to the last post of the thread, missing out on the 20 or so posts that had been made overnight since I last looked at it.

Same with the second one - straight to the last post, missing out all the new unread posts since I was last on thread.

BUT

I've just noticed (I think) that the first two threads above, I clicked on the bookmarks star, and then into the threads from the "preview" dropdown list.

Now I've just gone to the actual bookmarks list and clicked into a couple of threads, and it's brought me to the correct (first unread) post.

So, there seems to be a difference on mobile in what happens depending on what menu or list you click into a thread from - same as on desktop.

I've now run out of bookmarks to further test this, but I think that's what's happening. At least, if there is a pattern, no matter how bizarre, it will make using the site a lot less frustrating, for me anyway.

But really and truly, is there no way to standardise this? On both desktop and mobile? (Which in my head should behave the same way, but that's a whole other day's work)

Things that are still missing or buggy:

Getting a list of peoples' posts is really difficult. You have to sign in to even view someone's profile (why?). I managed to find a list of my own comments by some miracle, can't manage it at all with anyone else. Really frustrating. Banned users have no profiles at all (again - why?)

On main page My Forums My Threads and Trending tabs are covered over by a grey bar that's part of the header.

It's not possible to partially quote someone - it's all or nothing.

Look I just want to find the things I posted in various threads, that doesn't seem like that huge a thing.

Thanks are also hidden from people who aren't signed in (what lunacy is this).

Where has the report post button gone?