Clicking on the topic title goes to the first post, not the most recent

[NateDhaliwal]

As the title says, here on Meta, after reading a topic, and going back to the homepage, when I click on the topic, it goes to the first post and not the last one.
But the thing is that it doesn’t occur on another forum I’m on, so I put site feedback and not bug.

[Moin]

Does this happen in all categories?

I think some categories, like announcements and all documentation categories, are configured that way.

There is a Navigate to first post after topics are read option in the category settings

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 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…

You can click the time in the activity column to definitely go to the latest post or click the number in the replies column and choose whether you want to be taken to the first or last post.

[NateDhaliwal]

Right. Thanks for the explanation!