# User Posts in a Topic

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-posts-in-a-topic/185247
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 2, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-posts-in-a-topic/185247 "2021-04-02T13:25:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Slowhand](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/slowhand/32/57436_2.png) [@Slowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Slowhand)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-posts-in-a-topic/185247/1 "2021-04-02T13:25:33Z")

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We have several large threads in my forum and I use the “posts in topic” function quite frequently to look at individuals separately.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/5/752993cf0b308755b3bcc5b1b18f6f63a5bbdf1a.jpeg)

However, starting today (April 2), after clicking on it and attempting to scroll down through the posts, it stops and reverts back to ALL posts in topic.

I did check with other users and am not the only one this is happening to.

**EDIT** : Just tested it here on one of the larger threads and the same thing happened.

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-posts-in-a-topic/185247/2 "2021-04-02T16:50:06Z")

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> [@Slowhand](#):
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> Just tested it here on one of the larger threads and the same thing happened.

I’ve just tested this with the topic at [https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776](https://meta.discourse.org/t/events-plugin/69776). There are a few users who have created a lot of posts in that topic. What I am finding is that I can scroll through their posts with my browser’s scroll bar without any problem. If, instead, I try to use the topic’s timeline to scroll through the posts, the timeline will revert to pulling in all the topic’s posts. The issue seems to happen if I scroll far enough in the timeline to cause a request to be made to the database to pull in more posts.

I’ve moved this topic to our bug category.

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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-posts-in-a-topic/185247/7 "2021-04-06T23:48:34Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> What I am finding is that I can scroll through their posts with my browser’s scroll bar without any problem. If, instead, I try to use the topic’s timeline to scroll through the posts, the timeline will revert to pulling in all the topic’s posts.

Thanks, Simon, this should now be fixed (via [this PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/12620)) for navigation using the topic timeline or when clicking on the topic title in the header. In other cases (for example, if you click on a notification in the user dropdown menu), we want the current filter to be cleared when showing the relevant post.

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### Author: ![Slowhand](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/slowhand/32/57436_2.png) [@Slowhand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Slowhand)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2021, 1:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-posts-in-a-topic/185247/8 "2021-04-07T01:45:10Z")

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For those of us not well-versed in this, does the fix mean that we can use the scroll bar on the side without it reverting back to all the posts in the topic?

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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-posts-in-a-topic/185247/9 "2021-04-07T13:23:49Z")

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Yes @Slowhand, it means that once you’re in a filtered view of posts in a topic, navigating using the timeline will not revert to all the posts. It should keep the filter unless you specifically click “Show All” in the overlay.

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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-posts-in-a-topic/185247/10 "2021-04-12T16:15:02Z")

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