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

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.

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

I was finally able to make the forums look good :slight_smile: http://forums.witiby.com/ Would like your feedback and of course the functionality I mentioned above!

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.

You’re in luck, there is a new option on each category to enable this: [image] Navigate to first post after topics are read, category setting megaphoneAnnouncements 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 #documentation 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 th…

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.

Always open the first post of the topic?

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david (David Taylor) November 26, 2018, 4:07pm 6

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

Topic		Replies	Views
Clicking on topic takes me to the bottom of the thread Product Support	6	819	February 28, 2020
Navigate to first post after topics are read, category setting Announcements new-feature	3	2344	July 31, 2018
Clicking a topic title goes to last post Product Support	3	810	July 5, 2023
Access the top of the topic page Product Support	7	800	June 25, 2023
View first post as opposed to last Product Support	4	1536	December 21, 2018

Always open the first post of the topic?

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