# Link to first unread post?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-to-first-unread-post/106476
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 8:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-to-first-unread-post/106476 "2019-01-14T08:43:12Z")
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### Author: ![Shauny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shauny/32/362012_2.png) [@Shauny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shauny)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-to-first-unread-post/106476/19 "2025-09-28T07:57:12Z")

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Just my own day-to-day experience.

I run a busy forum and I want to read everything but I don’t always get time.

Then when I get @ mentioned or replied in a post, I get a notification. I can’t click the notification because I know it will skip down far in the list and I’ll miss a lot of posts, it’s an absolute nightmare to try and scroll up and find where I last left off.

So my notifications area is never used, which means I miss notifications until days after, and sometimes they are important.

And if I see that I have an @ mention in a thread called “Example Thread”, and that thread isn’t easy to see in the list, I can’t even search for it because that will take me to the very top of the thread and I’ll have to scroll all the way down to find where I left off.

There is just no easy way to open the thread where I last left off if I have a notification in there.

It’s a really bad situation for me!

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