Lorthirk is seeking a way to disable the “Jump to last unread” feature in a Discourse forum, as some co-admins prefer the old way of scrolling to the top of a thread. However, awesomerobot stated that this feature is an integral part of the platform, and it might require a theme or plugin to remove it.
Some users, like Sailsman63 and Lilly, appreciate the feature and see it as a quality of life improvement, particularly in longer topics. They argue that disabling it would make navigation more difficult.
Lorthirk shared that the co-admins’ objections are not strong, and they simply prefer the old way. HAWK confirmed that there isn’t a built-in solution to disable the feature and asked for a compelling reason to justify its removal. The discussion concluded without a solution, with most users finding the feature useful and beneficial.
I set up a Discourse new forum and both me and my co-admins love it. There’s a thing, anyway: some of them aren’t really convinced by the fact that when a user clicks on a thread, the view automatically scrolls to the last unread message. I’m honestly cool with that (who wants to read the first message over and over again? just take me to the new ones!), but yeah… let’s say we still don’t have an agreement
So, back to the topic: can the feature be disabled, or it’s just the way it works?
Note that, as a user, this is one of many quality of life things that makes interacting on a discourse powered forum smooth.
Also: on longer topics with infini-scroll, it’s pretty much essential. I don’t have the crutch of manually binary-searching through the pages until I roughly find where I left off.
If I ended up needing to interact on a forum where someone had managed to turn this off, I’d have (Public!) Words for the site admin.
Well… they still don’t manage to build a strong objection. It’s just “I liked the old ways”. That’s why I think the easiest way is to convince them that the Discourse way is better. Not just because it’s Discourse, of course, but because it makes sense indeed.
As far as I know there still isn’t a solution for this. We don’t have plans to build one because the feature makes sense. Do you have a compelling reason why you’d like it disabled?
i can’t imagine why anyone would want this disabled unless they have very short topics. also, the progress/ timeline scroller to the right of a topic is awesome. for going up to top, one click on the topic header (title) takes the user to the OP.
