Not a fan of scrolling to highlighted posts when following links

Positioning King·11/15/2014, 12:06:07 AM·5 votes·1,121 views

Not the biggest problem in the world, but I don't like how when I click on a link to a specific post in a discussion (e.g. anything in the red tracker), the following happens:

  • Click link
  • Page loads
  • I start reading the first po--
  • All of a sudden my browser is scrolling on down to the linked post, no matter how hard I try to scroll back up

Does this bother anyone else? If the goal is to get to the linked post, I'd really like to travel there instantly, like how Wikipedia does it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Triomphe#Access e.g.), or at least stop trying to take me to the post once I've desperately attempted to stay in the same place with the scroll wheel. The smooth scroll down to the post is very slick and HTML5-y but I can't say it's adding anything to the experience.

3 Comments

kitcat30011/15/2014, 12:13:14 AM2 votes

An option to choose between the post itself or the start of the tread would be nice.

Junkο11/16/2014, 8:29:24 PM2 votes

Or they could just make the post that is linked the first post that shows up, not WAY at the bottom of the page

Fury and Emperor11/16/2014, 11:03:18 PM2 votes

Also:

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