[INCOMING FIX] View jumps backwards 4-5 days/20 read messages in Tracked forum

Postcrossing Bugs
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I have several forums set to Tracking. When I open the forum, it should show me the newest unread post, and there is a red line showing the unread posts above. Recently, when I go into a forum with perhaps 4 unread messages (as shown in the list of forums), the view will jump backwards 4 or 5 days, our about 20 messages.

I have seen this on a laptop (PC) and on my ipad, so I don’t think it is related to the specific browser or any caching/cookies.

It doesn’t happen all the time or on all forums, but it is quite annoying to keep scrolling back down to see only the unread messages.

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I use mobile phone and this happens quite often. It always seems to jump back exactly 20 posts. Sometimes I have just started to read the latest post when it jumps back. Sometimes I just jump back to the latest post and scroll back to see, if I missed any posts, sometimes the blue “back” - button appears. It doesn’t happen all the time, but many times a day.

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I’ve noticed the same

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Yes, same here. I’ve been meaning to open a thread about it for quite a few days, as it is rather annoying, but I kept forgetting to do it. It happens both on my phone on on the laptop.

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Same here. I don’t recall when exactly it started happening but not that long ago. A few weeks? Maybe a bit longer.

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Yes, same here. :see_no_evil:

:green_heart::fox_face:

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Yes, I’ve been noticing this too but I would say it started just a few days ago. I’m using an android phone.

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Same here, both on smartphone and on computer (both devices are always up to date).

If I recall it right, it started a short time after the last update.

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Some minutes ago I had the same problem for the first time.

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That’s how I remember it too. Definitely longer than just a few days for me.

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Thanks for letting us know.

We are looking in to it.

Vicki
Postcrossing Team

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Yes, i open many threads and they work fine but suddenly they get back to 20-30 messages above

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I have noticed this for some time too. I’ll be in the tags category and click on a thread to view. Then click the back button and many times it takes me back several days before instead of where I last was. I don’t look at the latest topics like you’ve linked to, but the tags, round robins and such are sorted for me to show the latest activity to oldest.

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It seems this is an already reported issue and the Discourse team has applied a fix in August. We will get the fix when there’s a new stable release which is expected to happen in the end of January / early February and we’ll update to it some time after that.

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Any update on this, I’m seeing this issue recently after it seemed to have stopped.

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A new version is out, but I haven’t had the chance yet to prepare the upgrade as some changes will be needed to accommodate for it. But it’s coming soon (next few weeks, I think).

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