Always open the first post of the topic?

[bankerrahul (Rahul Banker)]

Hi, I would like to make discourse open the first post always instead of the last read post, is that possible?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

No, this is not possible. You can do this if you open links in anonymous mode in the browser, or if you never log in.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Just to clarify, you can enter a topic at the top by clicking or tapping on the number of replies.

Clicking or tapping on…

• the topic title → enters at last read position

• the number of replies → pops up a date selector so you can enter at top or bottom.

• the last reply date → enters at the bottom

[bankerrahul (Rahul Banker)]

I was finally able to make the forums look good

http://forums.witiby.com/

Would like your feedback and of course the functionality I mentioned above!

[drreen]

Digging up this one

Is there any way via a theme component to enable such feature?
We have really long discussions where all beginners can ask questions. Before they ask a new one, we want them to redirect to the FAQ in the topic to avoid recurring questions.

[david (David Taylor)]

You’re in luck, there is a new option on each category to enable this:

Navigate to first post after topics are read, category setting

Per this commit categories have a new setting that allows administrators to amend the behavior of fully read topics. Out-of-the-box logged-on-users will navigate to the last post in a topic after they are done reading it. This is not ideal for documentation type categories such as #howto and so on where you often want to re-read the OP a few times. This is a per category setting, to enable this special behavior tick Navigate to first post after topics are read in category settings on the desig…

[drreen]

Actually my intention was to navigate to first post even when unread posts are available. Only the dot next to the topic title navigates to the first unread post.