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Are the Gremlins at it again or is MTM imposing on me.

I don't want to be pushed to pg. 5 of a forum post

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Robert Dodds30/10/2013 22:44:28
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Like many others I go to ME home page and then slip over to Latest Forum Posts to choose a preferred read.
Until recently I have been directed to the opening page of my chosen topic and could read the OP and get the gist of what it was about and then browse through the assorted responses.
Something has happened to change this. I now go to the top of the last page of any multi-paged topic and see a response which can on occasion bear little relationship to the original question or comment and I find this more than a little annoying.
It is further confusing that if I approach the forum topics from the longer list of More Latest Posts and choose a multi-page topic from there I am directed, as in the past, to the opening page and can see the OP.
Is this an intentional change or does the site have some concealed Personal Preferences settings that I don't know about?
Or is it just another unintended consequence of recent changes to the layout?

Bob D

John Stevenson30/10/2013 22:52:14
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Takes you to the last page looked at in a multipage post.

If you haven't read the post before it goes to the start. I quite like it as it saves you having to scroll to the bottom to see if you got that far and choose last page

GaryM30/10/2013 22:56:18
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Hi Bob,

If you bookmark this page

**LINK**

it will take you to the first page of any thread you click on. Or at least it does for me.

Gary

Bazyle30/10/2013 23:34:24
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There is a flag to set somewhere, probably in your profile, that you set to make it go to the latest page of posts in any thread you have already read part of. IT only takes you to the top of the page, not the actual new post. Guess it is limitting the amount of data it has to save on your pc cookies. Dome forums go right to what you want to read.

Bazyle30/10/2013 23:41:54
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Erm maybe not anymore. Eventually found my profile via 'settings' but no flag. There used ot be one but maybe it is just default now.

JasonB31/10/2013 07:26:19
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Settings - My Account - first option is start at first or last page

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John Hinkley31/10/2013 10:39:39
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JasonB

Done that. Still goes to the latest post even though first post is selected as default.

John

Stub Mandrel31/10/2013 14:17:07
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When I find that I am on the first page of along thread, it means that either:

  1. I have been logged out and need to log in again.
  2. I have clicked on a link in the 'latest forum posts' panel.

Neil

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