Jumping to end of thread

[miniman]

As there seems to be some activity from Jack today - any news on fixing the spectacularly annoying issue where opening a thread you haven't read before on mobile takes you to the end of the thread and you have to scroll up / page back to get to the beginning?

[dhutch]

This, please.

I have it set on the max number of posts per page to minimise this, and for long threads manually trim the url to get back to the start, but its a massive pita and something we shouldn't have to see for years!


Daniel

Edited by dhutch on Thursday 26th November 21:05

[anonymous-user]

I’d love this to be fixed but it’s been broken for so long that I’m not hopeful.

[Jack Mansfield]

Hi guys,

Yes this is still on the radar, and will be fixed in the future, however I can't give you a time frame on this I'm afraid.

Thank you and apologies for the inconvenience.

[miniman]

Honestly Jack I’m usually the first to jump to the defence of PH but is there actually going to be any investment post-acquisition by CarGurus? There was plenty of reassurance at the time that the forums are important but the evidence suggests otherwise.

[miniman]

Does anyone employed by PH actually use the forums? When you visit a thread you haven't seen, it jumps to the end. When you visit a thread you HAVE seen and WANT to go to the end, it goes to the beginning. Surely this can't be hard to resolve!?

[dhutch]

miniman said:

Does anyone employed by PH actually use the forums? When you visit a thread you haven't seen, it jumps to the end. When you visit a thread you HAVE seen and WANT to go to the end, it goes to the beginning. Surely this can't be hard to resolve!?

Literally the most annoying forum to use ever. I enjoy bits of the car chat, and the diy&garden area, but use this forum far less because it is so unfriendly and annoying to use.

I also do not upload many images I usually would, because the 'beta' image snap system is also a royal pita piece of dirt from the dark ages which is slow, clunky, and can only upload one file at a time.


Daniel

[miniman]

dhutch said:

miniman said:

Does anyone employed by PH actually use the forums? When you visit a thread you haven't seen, it jumps to the end. When you visit a thread you HAVE seen and WANT to go to the end, it goes to the beginning. Surely this can't be hard to resolve!?

Literally the most annoying forum to use ever. I enjoy bits of the car chat, and the diy&garden area, but use this forum far less because it is so unfriendly and annoying to use.

I also do not upload many images I usually would, because the 'beta' image snap system is also a royal pita piece of dirt from the dark ages which is slow, clunky, and can only upload one file at a time.


Daniel

It's now approaching a year since the jump-to-end thing was raised.

Honestly someone at Cargurus should listen to the Chris Harris / PetrolTed podcast to try to understand what they've actually bought.

[dhutch]

miniman said:

It's now approaching a year since the jump-to-end thing was raised.

And the rest..... this issue has rumbled on for years.

miniman said:

Honestly someone at Cargurus should listen to the Chris Harris / PetrolTed podcast to try to understand what they've actually bought.

Not familiar with that, but likely so!

[ApexCult]

miniman said:

Honestly someone at Cargurus should listen to the Chris Harris / PetrolTed podcast to try to understand what they've actually bought.

Do you have a link to this podcast? A Collecting Cars ones?

[miniman]

ApexCult said:

miniman said:

Honestly someone at Cargurus should listen to the Chris Harris / PetrolTed podcast to try to understand what they've actually bought.

Do you have a link to this podcast? A Collecting Cars ones?

Episode 14

https://collectingcars.com/podcasts/

[SlimJim16v]

miniman said:

Does anyone employed by PH actually use the forums? When you visit a thread you haven't seen, it jumps to the end. When you visit a thread you HAVE seen and WANT to go to the end, it goes to the beginning. Surely this can't be hard to resolve!?

This is really starting piss me off now

[dhutch]

It's mega toss.

[mcdjl]

SlimJim16v said:

miniman said:

Does anyone employed by PH actually use the forums? When you visit a thread you haven't seen, it jumps to the end. When you visit a thread you HAVE seen and WANT to go to the end, it goes to the beginning. Surely this can't be hard to resolve!?

This is really starting piss me off now

Occasionally for good measure/a change it decides to take me to where the thread was on my last visit (regardless of whether or not I've read that thread) and drops me half way down a random page.

[anonymous-user]

dhutch said:

It's mega toss.

An accurate description

[SlimJim16v]

MePH

[Matt Dell]

Sorry for not responding miniman. I've looked into this and it doesn't happen on my phone.

People who are having this problem, what devices is it happening on? What browser? What steps to reproduce? That would all be much appreciated.

[mcdjl]

Matt Dell said:

Sorry for not responding miniman. I've looked into this and it doesn't happen on my phone.

People who are having this problem, what devices is it happening on? What browser? What steps to reproduce? That would all be much appreciated.

It's random. It won't do it for a while, then it'll do it to some threads and not others. No logic I can see behind whether I've posted on it/ read it previously or not. The best I can think it's is maybe about whether I've logged in recently but I'm fairly sure it's not that either.

[carlove]

Mine does it at the moment on an iPhone XS using chrome.

[marksx]

Moto G6 using Brave.