auto scroll to first unread posts

[Chris]

Would be nice to auto scroll to first unread post in a thread. Would be significantly nicer than scrolling through a bunch of auto-loads

[Bri]

Definitely, definitely would like to see this

[ilyagrave]

Absolutely needed!

[kevin]

Or maybe toggle ascending/descending order? Waiting for replies to load can be painful after about 40 responses.

[Bri]

Auto scroll to first unread post · Issue #1064 · NodeBB/NodeBB

... or, start loading from first unread. In most forums, threads tend to get very long, so not having to scroll through all the posts you have read (for the 10th time) would be extremely user friendly

GitHub (github.com)

[finid]

@kevin

Yep, I think the best way to handle this would be to show recent posts firsts, which I think will not be that difficult to implement.

[Punkbob]

Did this ever get beyond the exploratory phase? It's definitely something that my users want as our previous forum software had this option.

[julian]

@Punkbob Yes, we have the bookmarking feature now. When you re-visit a thread you have been to before, an alert appears allowing you to, on click, scroll immediately to the last read post.

[Punkbob]

Right, is that ok to invoke that from outside the thread? And is the bookmark still stored locally or is it stored in the db now? I see some discussion on github from last year about storing data so that it woks across devices, but no confirmation that is how it is implemented now.

[julian]

The bookmark is stored on the client-side only, so there's no cross-device functionality present right now.

[jarey]

@julian said:

The bookmark is stored on the client-side only, so there's no cross-device functionality present right now.