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#latest Thread Links
Zek
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An annoyance I've been having since the new forums were launched is the way the main topic link works when you click on a thread. It links to a #latest URL that takes you to the first unread post in that thread. That's fine and good, but the problem is that this is a dynamic link - when you hit refresh, it checks again for the first unread post and takes you there, often taking you to a different page when you weren't done reading the first one. Would it be possible to make the links instead point directly to the post that was newest at the time, and if you refresh it still goes to that post?
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(that said it seems to me that we already have that data in the thread list since it knows the # of new posts there are)
Doing a redirect sounded like the "correct" way to fix it, but if that's not in the cards, maybe there is another way, such as using a bit of javascript? It's a new html5 feature, so obviously it wouldn't work for every browser.
As a proof of concept, I wrote a little user script. Under chrome, it seems to hold up against the small amount of testing I've thrown against it.
Edit: first version didn't like single page threads, updated link
I think that's definitely a workable solution. If nothing else you could just use JS to erase the #latest which is better than nothing. I may take a stab at it later today.
(also did you not see the link where I did implement it?)
Yeah, a proper implementation would probably have an easier time determining the "real url". Having nothing better that I can see, I pull the url from the page buttons on the top/bottom or if those don't exist, assume we're on the first page.