Discourse jumping 20 posts up when going back to PWA

Fout
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Hello,

We just did an update of Discourse this weekend (2026.1.0-latest). I observed that, sometimes, when using our forum installed as a PWA with Chrome, going out of the app and back in will jump conversations 20 posts up.

This is happening when, for example, clicking a link to an external site and going back to the forum, switching apps, or using the back button.

This is also happening on topic lists, going back to the PWA will sometimes restore the wrong position.

I haven’t seen this when using the forum directly on the web browser, but I did not test it a lot.

Everything else is working fine. Clicking on conversations will go to the right place, direct link to specific messages are going where they should.

Thanks

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I’m also getting this on my self hosted install and here on Meta.

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Thanks for reporting this, can you let us know if you’re on Android or iOS and which version?

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This is on Android 16, with Chrome 144.

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I’m on Android 14, Chrome 144

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I’m not able to reproduce on Android 14, Chrome 144. Are there any specific steps that reproduce the problem every single time?

We’ve had similar “page scrolls up 20 posts” in the past, mostly on iOS, though.

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A simple way for me is to go on a discussion with an external link, click on it to open in a Custom Tabs, and going back to the forum.

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