# Do I really have to scroll all the way to the bottom manually on my cell phone to put in a new Post in the thread?

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**Created:** [May 12, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-really-have-to-scroll-all-the-way-to-the-bottom-manually-on-my-cell-phone-to-put-in-a-new-post-in-the-thread/941911 "2021-05-12T14:07:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-really-have-to-scroll-all-the-way-to-the-bottom-manually-on-my-cell-phone-to-put-in-a-new-post-in-the-thread/941911/21 "2022-02-05T03:29:28Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> That–believe it or not–is a hamburger.

Huh. I always called it the Pancakes.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-really-have-to-scroll-all-the-way-to-the-bottom-manually-on-my-cell-phone-to-put-in-a-new-post-in-the-thread/941911/22 "2022-02-05T03:35:58Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Yes, unfortunately this is an unavoidable side effect of keeping track of exact read location, history will be rather polluted. Apologies.

Couldn’t you keep track in a cookie instead of changing the URL?

\*or possibly even asynchronous storage

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