Merged notifications always take you to the first response

[riking (Kane York)]

My first reaction to the topic title was: “…yes, that’s the point of merging them?”

But then I saw “5,000 new and unread posts on the topic” and I think I should direct you to the discussion here:

The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace?

When we founded Discourse in 2013, I had the idea that we’d support topics of any length or size, from 10 replies to 100 to 10,000 to 100,000 or even more! [image] A few years ago we ran into a technical limitation where we send down a list of all the post IDs in the topic when you enter the topic. This starts to cause problems on the client – particularly older smartphones with less memory and CPU power – at around ~10,000 replies, so we created a site setting that automatically closes topic…

You can also see an un-merged view at /my/notifications/responses.