# Post numbering inconsistent with scrollbar
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-numbering-inconsistent-with-scrollbar/52473
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 4, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-numbering-inconsistent-with-scrollbar/52473 "2016-11-04T05:32:58Z")
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### Author:  [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-numbering-inconsistent-with-scrollbar/52473/1 "2016-11-04T05:32:58Z")
On [Announcing the Choice of Games Contest for Interactive Novels - Announcements - Choice of Games Forum](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/announcing-the-choice-of-games-contest-for-interactive-novels/21578) there are a few hidden posts at the top of the thread.
If you click on the time stamp of the first post, it naturally identifies itself as post #1. But when you scroll to the next user-visible post and click on the time stamp, it says “post #4.”
That’s weird, I guess, but the bug I’m reporting is that this is inconsistent with the scrollbar, which is especially noticeable on mobile where only one or two posts fit on screen at a time.
In an iPhone Private tab, scroll down to the fourth visible post, “post #6.”
Actual: The post counter in the lower-right corner says “4/32,” making it appear as if you’re on post #4. If you then scroll further down and jump to post “#4,” that will take you to the second visible post, whose invisible post number is post #4.
Expected: When posts are hidden, the post numbers should change to match the scrollbar/counter, so if you’re looking at “post #2” the scrollbar should say “2/32.”
(Alternately, the scrollbar counter could include hidden posts, so you’d scroll down just one post and the counter would increment by 3 to say “4/34” or whatever the real total is. But this would reveal the existence of hidden posts to the public, so that’s probably not the right answer.)
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-numbering-inconsistent-with-scrollbar/52473/2 "2016-11-04T14:13:37Z")
> [@dfabulich](#):
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> Actual: The post counter in the lower-right corner says “4/32,” making it appear as if you’re on post #4.
I think the correct way to read this is **The post counter in the lower-right corner says “4/32” telling that you are on the 4° visible post.**