# Annoying thread scrolling problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [March 1, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-thread-scrolling-problem/960308 "2022-03-01T21:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-thread-scrolling-problem/960308/1 "2022-03-01T21:58:54Z")
For a while now (months, at least), I have been getting a weird problem where I’ll visit a thread, scroll through a dozen posts or so, and then suddenly Discourse scrolls me back up to the place where I’d started reading. And there’s an ad. The reason it’s annoying is that I may have scrolled down 10-20 posts or so, and Discourse doesn’t know where I left off. It’s as if it wants to insert an advertisement at the place I was when I left the page, and it forcibly scrolls up there, ignoring the progress I’d made since revisiting the page. Can I do anything about this? Can anyone? Chrome 98.0.4758.109 on Mac. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-thread-scrolling-problem/960308/2 "2022-03-01T22:00:43Z")
I wish I knew something to help. I did move this question to Site Feedback as it is far more likely to attract a developer. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-thread-scrolling-problem/960308/3 "2022-03-01T22:01:35Z")
Happens to me constantly. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-thread-scrolling-problem/960308/4 "2022-03-01T22:04:37Z")
**Which Theme do you both use and what browsers?** Discourse Classic on Chrome and I don’t have that issue. You can change themes on the Interface screen of Preferences. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-thread-scrolling-problem/960308/5 "2022-03-02T02:30:54Z")
It’s maddening. There was an older thread where I posted some videos. Nothing ever came of it. I finally had to block the ads even though I didn’t want to on one of my laptops. ETA: Found the thread > [@Annoying board glitch. Is there a fix?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-board-glitch-is-there-a-fix/949362): > > When I’m in a forum and I click on a thread that I’ve previously visited, it takes me to the point in the thread where I last visited. Everything below that is new replies. This is great. Then I start reading the new replies, and scrolling down. after a minute or so, it will suddenly jump back up to the point where I started scrolling from. This is really annoying, because now I have to scroll down and manually find the spot where I had read up to when the thread jumped back. If I’ve got a… ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-thread-scrolling-problem/960308/6 "2022-03-03T21:37:52Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > **Which Theme do you both use and what browsers?** > > Discourse Classic on Chrome and I don’t have that issue. > > You can change themes on the Interface screen of Preferences. I was on Vincent. I played around with a couple of themes. It seems like some themes have issues, and some do not. The big difference I noticed is that the non-broken themes show ads inline with the posts, every page or so. The broken themes only seem to show the ad at the last-visited point (and they really want to scroll me back to that ad). I didn’t do any systematic observations, just enough to find something that works.