# Using keyboard shortcuts to navigate between replies causes topic to be "stuck"
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** desktop, keyboard-shortcuts
**Created:** [16 oktober 2025 om 00:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780 "2025-10-16T00:09:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [16 oktober 2025 om 00:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780/1 "2025-10-16T00:09:23Z")
When moving down a topic using J, it gets to a point where you can’t navigate any further using the key. Even if I try to move up (K) and move down, I still cannot move below that specific reply.
I believe this reply is the last of the loaded replies and the keyboard shortcuts doesn’t trigger the loading of the next batch of replies?
Also, **scrolling up/down when encountering this does not work**. Oddly enough, you can’t load the next batch even if you try and scroll down - no loading spinner, nothing, even the bottom reply isn’t the last one.
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [16 oktober 2025 om 04:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780/2 "2025-10-16T04:33:43Z")
I can reproduce this consistently on an internal site and it seems to happen when the height of the last topic fits nicely within the screen.
Going to put a #pri-medium on this for the team to look at.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [30 oktober 2025 om 03:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780/3 "2025-10-30T03:24:25Z")
This issue seems to be fixed now @tgxworld ?
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [30 oktober 2025 om 06:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780/4 "2025-10-30T06:37:38Z")
I don’t think anything was done here. I can still reproduce it but not in a reliable way.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [30 oktober 2025 om 07:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780/5 "2025-10-30T07:32:25Z")
I sometimes got stuck in a topic too. But it was not because of using a keyboard shortcut. I don’t use keyboard shortcuts to navigate on my tablet.
But I also have no reliable repro, so I’m not sure if this adds anything helpful.
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### Author:  [@saquetim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/saquetim)
#### Post date: [13 februari 2026 om 02:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780/8 "2026-02-13T02:02:04Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37788](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37788)
The PR above addresses this issue.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [20 februari 2026 om 21:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-keyboard-shortcuts-to-navigate-between-replies-causes-topic-to-be-stuck/385780/9 "2026-02-20T21:00:55Z")
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