Wiki topic bump indicator?

The Salesforce topic has just been bumped due to a wiki edit. I found the experience a little confusing. When you click on the topic that was bumped, you end up at the last post you have read, but nothing has changed there. It didn’t feel very intuitive that the editing had taken place somewhere else.

Previously, a bump in wiki edits only happened if it was the last post, and then you ended up right there when you opened the topic. Now you can end up hundreds of posts later, and it’s confusing if you don’t know/remember that the first post in the topic is a wiki.

Perhaps it would make sense to add an indicator for this? Not a permanent small action post, more something like the topic timer which is shown at the bottom of this topic. Something like:

The last activity was an edit to the first post. Take a look

With a link to the first post. This notice would disappear as soon as the wiki edit is no longer the last activity, so it doesn’t spam the topic with lots of notices.

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