# Way to find parent post (not list of all ancestors scrolled to the top of the list)

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 17, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-find-parent-post-not-list-of-all-ancestors-scrolled-to-the-top-of-the-list/342965 "2024-12-17T18:27:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![curi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@curi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/curi)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/way-to-find-parent-post-not-list-of-all-ancestors-scrolled-to-the-top-of-the-list/342965/9 "2024-12-17T20:43:05Z")

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After the setting change, it’s now easy and convenient to see the direct parent post. So that solves most of my problem.

Reviewing multiple ancestors is now better in some ways but worse in some ways, so there’s a compromise there. Expanding the parent then clicking jump to parent is a little more work than using reddit’s “parent” link, especially if you read a long post then have to scroll back up through it. And the old way where I could scroll through multiple ancestors in a row without any clicks had some advantages. But this is pretty good overall now and I don’t have a specific suggestion that looks obviously better to me.

I would like an optional setting, default to off, to display a parent post link next to the permalink button. But it’s not a huge deal.

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