# Previous/next topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-next-topic/24884>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed, keyboard-shortcuts\
**Created:** [5 Febbraio 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-next-topic/24884 "2015-02-05T21:21:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![tjb1013](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tjb1013/32/120402_2.png) [@tjb1013](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tjb1013)\
**Post date:** [27 Novembre 2016, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-next-topic/24884/24 "2016-11-27T12:36:33Z")

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I also will chime in here for a previous/next unread navigation element.

Our community follows a sports team. Just about everything posted decays quickly. Over the weekend, a bunch of threads will be started or added to about the last game, the next game, the performance of league teams, latest recruiting news (it’s a college team). Our members like to check in and read up all the new threads, or new additions to threads, and know they’re caught up. It’s like browsing a sports section that is only about your team.

Right now that requires a lot of pogo-sticking to the top of the categories’ lists.

The suggested posts is a good idea when the community topics are not so ephemeral. Right now, when the team we follow is playing, say, Michigan, the suggested topics might be the last Michigan game, or another IGT (in-game thread) for another team (presumably because we use the same abbreviation in the topic title).

There’s very little call for contextualizing our posts/topics beyond recency.

I can see where many (most) communities would benefit from this kind of thing. I once managed a staff of information architects who worked on ways to provide contextual links on 50,000-page Web sites; it’s hard to do, but has a huge payoff when done well.

Ours is not one that benefits. Discourse is superb for us in so many other ways that not being able to quickly go to “next unread” it is a minor annoyance. But it would be a nice addition.

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