# Vertical scroll bar doesn't let you select individual posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/vertical-scroll-bar-doesnt-let-you-select-individual-posts/51825
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [October 21, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vertical-scroll-bar-doesnt-let-you-select-individual-posts/51825 "2016-10-21T01:54:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vertical-scroll-bar-doesnt-let-you-select-individual-posts/51825/1 "2016-10-21T01:54:52Z")
Our forum has a lot of threads with a large number of posts. For example:
[https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/guns-of-infinity/2656/32265](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/guns-of-infinity/2656/32265) 33k posts
[Children of the Gods (Important poll #12306) - Works In Progress - Choice of Games Forum](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/children-of-the-gods-update-post-8217/15482) 9k posts
[Guenevere (WIP) - Works In Progress - Choice of Games Forum](https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/guenevere-wip/1996) 8k posts
On threads that large, there’s no way to use the vertical scroll bar to select an individual post by number. Moving the scroll bar even a single pixel moves the cursor by a large number of posts.
On desktop browsers, we can use the `#` shortcut key to select a particular post, which is kinda manageable but undiscoverable.
But now that the vertical scroll bar is used on mobile, there’s now no way at all to select a particular post in a large thread on mobile. This is bad.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vertical-scroll-bar-doesnt-let-you-select-individual-posts/51825/2 "2016-10-21T02:00:07Z")
Sure there is tons of room on the right to add a jump to post number function as needed @sam
In the meantime keyboard shortcuts should still work press ? to view
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vertical-scroll-bar-doesnt-let-you-select-individual-posts/51825/3 "2016-10-21T02:01:22Z")
Keyboard shortcut still works, but yeah, you can not trigger it on mobile.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vertical-scroll-bar-doesnt-let-you-select-individual-posts/51825/4 "2017-01-17T22:12:09Z")