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My screen keeps jumping up and down when I click on a thread?

  • 18-12-2024 09:01PM
    #1
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭


    Any time I click on a thread the screen just keeps bouncing back and forward. It's both on the mobile and desktop site. Sometimes it will bring me back days on a thread. I commented on a thread to day and when I came back It sent me back to the 19th of November.

    Post edited by Big Bag of Chips on


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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,066 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    An old and as yet unsolved bug with Vanilla, just like so many other issues it has.



  • #3
    amandstu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,196 ✭✭✭amandstu


    Yes,this page won't let me scroll down

    (works now I think)

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058381946/liverpool-fc-team-talk-gossip-rumours-2024-25


  • #4
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,751 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122971959#Comment_122971959

    It has got hugely worse in the last few days

    Also, notifications open the right thread but often up to 6 years ago, in terms of the posts it displays



  • #5
    Headshot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,649 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Vanilla the gift that keeps on giving.



  • #6
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Delete cookies, helps for a bit.



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  • #7
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,805 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Same here but, despite it's apparently being an old bug, yesterday was the 1st time I can recall encountering it.

    On android 14 and Chrome 131.0.6778.135



  • #8
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,066 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972361#Comment_122972361

    I see it only rarely, and it comes and goes without any obvious logic. For the example thread above I can't reproduce it.



  • #9
    blackbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,053 ✭✭✭blackbox


    I'm having the same jumping screen problem on some threads. I thought it was due to a bad internet connection, but that has been resolved and the jumping still happens. I now suspect it is connected to ads.



  • #10
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,066 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972391#Comment_122972391

    That was my first instinct too, but I run with uBlock Origin and still experience it, albeit rarely.



  • #11
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,919 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Me too.

    This thread however is behaving impeccably.

    Is the issue just with threads that have many pages ?



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  • #12
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972428#Comment_122972428

    Could be that.

    Also this thread doesnt have images, twitter links etc

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #13
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Have been experiencing the same issue, thought it was due to those large ads that take up a large portion of the screen (mobile)



  • #14
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972450#Comment_122972450

    The ad is trying to overlap the comment textbox on mobile for me. I drafted a post here and when I returned to the thread it was bouncing up and down.

    There is a screen focus conflict / competing commands.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #15
    Alkers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,930 ✭✭✭Alkers


    Same issue for me but only if there have been an amount of posts since my last visit. If I try a thread with one unread post it's fine



  • #16
    Caranica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,217 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122972450#Comment_122972450

    I'm having the same but no ads (use opera browser)



  • #17
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,375 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    There's a theory on the bugs thread that it is to do with rendering quoted posts \ replies.

    If it is happening to people without ads then it adds plausibility to that theory.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #18
    myfreespirit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭myfreespirit


    Same problem here - the screen keeps jumping when logged in to boards.ie on Android phone. Am using DuckDuckGo browser.

    The other problem is that clicking on the link which should bring you to the most recent post in a thread, instead lands on some random page of the thread, but maybe months or years ago.



  • #19
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Seriously the site is basically unusable now for me. It's getting worse day by day. Will it ever be fixed? I like popping in and out in the evenings but I can't do that the way the site is now.



  • #20
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Multiple platforms, multiple browsers - Chrome, Brave, Android phone, Windows 10, Windows 11, … And even if old bug, never noticed before and it's bad in the last few days. Happens on all threads but most threads I look at have images in them from time to time.



  • #21
    amandstu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,196 ✭✭✭amandstu


    I have tried scrolling down using 2 fingers with limited success.Also trying to scroll quickly to the bottom of the page first and then returning to the post it was returning to like an elastic band.

    Seemed to settle then.

    Almost bad enough to call in the Musk DOGE department.



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  • #22
    Mam of 4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,909 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122975806#Comment_122975806

    I've tried that too, now I've figured out if I can manage to keep my finger on a post for a few seconds to hold it in place, then the page stops jumping around.

    Not a great solution but it works for me.



  • #23
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,160 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    I'm getting it on one thread. Keeps going back to middle of the thread.

    Jumping around used to be solved by an ad blocker, but that breaks other things.

    I do not have any of these problems on any other forums.. Boards has it for years.



  • #24
    Igotadose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    I know epileptic folks that have issues with bouncy displays. Maybe Boards needs a health warning now? /s



  • #25
    OscarMIlde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭OscarMIlde


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058384968/my-screen-keeps-jumping-up-and-down-when-i-click-on-a-thread

    Me too, it was driving me absolutely demented during the recent werewolf game. Trying to follow on my mobile and couldn't get to any of the important posts.



  • #26
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,160 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Problem getting worse for me. Started with one thread. Now it's multiple threads..



  • #27
    Ezeoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Ezeoul


    This bouncy bug is starting to drive me insane….



  • #28
    Gusser09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,531 ✭✭✭Gusser09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122990750#Comment_122990750

    It'll never be fixed. Powers that be to busy clamping down on any contrary opinions. Cant be bothered fixing essential functionality though. It'll be the hill this site dies on.

    Reddit so much better at the moment and thats saying something.



  • #29
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,031 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122976169#Comment_122976169

    It is worse on the mobile especially with fast moving large threads

    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #30
    Pauliedragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122976157#Comment_122976157

    About 1% of the population have epilepsy and about 5% of people with epilepsy have issues with bouncy displays. It works out about 2000 people in Ireland have it. It's a pretty small mumber.



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  • #31
    Ezeoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Ezeoul


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123003996#Comment_123003996

    It's still annoying as fcuk.

    And I don't have epilepsy.



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