The idea is, when you are viewing a topic where one of the posts is linked-to from another post within the same topic, clicking the link should load the post dynamically, just the way the “go to post” button does.
Currently, the page is reloaded before the user is taken to the post. I find this functionality very sensible, if not too complex to implement.
Partly, yes. I actually meant both ways, be it links to posts earlier or later in the topic (e.g. on my forum the first post in a topic is an editable “Table of Contents”, for some categories).
I couldn’t find the link to/from post #19 but this behavior should already exist. If you are navigating from one post to another, it goes through the same “jump to post” logic that using the progress bar does. If it doesn’t, I’ve missed a weird case and should fix it!
Can you tell me exactly what link to click to demonstrate this?
Bear in mind if the post segment does not exist in memory you will see a Loading… indicator first.
In its first post, link to a post far down below, e.g. Add something like this in post #1:Testing link to [post #19](https://meta.discourse.org/t/easy-way-to-change-preformatted-text-code-button/16760/19).
Now click the link to post #19 in the first post of the topic. You’ll notice that the page reloads to take you to post #19. Like I said, for consistency, clicking the link should be similar to the “go/jump to post” button. That is, the page shouldn’t reload. It should dynamically (ajax or whatever) show the post.
