The discussion revolves around the default location when entering a topic. mcwumbly proposes changing it from the “Last Read” post to the “First Unread” post to help users catch up on missed posts. codinghorror questions the necessity of this change, citing a lack of complaints from other Discourse instances. mcwumbly agrees it’s not a priority but thinks it’s better default behavior. downey points out the existing “bottom” link could serve a similar purpose to a “jump to last unread” feature.
Proposal:
To solve the problem cited below, make the default location that one enters a topic be the “First Unread” post rather than the “Last Read” post.
That way, sam would come back to topic #22 at post #7 instead of post #10 or 11.
Continuing the discussion from [How should I disable automatic redirection to the Last reply？]
I personally feel this is rather overthinking the problem. Can you point to any other Discourse instance where people are complaining about this, or this is even mentioned?
Because I can’t.
(Not opposed to a “jump to last unread” in the topic navigator, though.)
I don’t think this comes up often enough to be a huge complaint. That said, i do think this would be better default behavior… not a priority, and happy to let it ruminate.
Regarding the explicit “jump to first unread” in the topic navigator idea, I opened a separate topic here.
The “bottom” link is already there?