# Forum Jump
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [October 9, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438 "2001-10-09T23:34:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@BuddhaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddhaDog)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/1 "2001-10-09T23:34:08Z")
I love this feature! I cant believe I never noticed it before!
Of course I have to scroll down to the very bottom of the screen, (but what the hell) but it saves lots of time.
I know that I am stating the obvious but Holy Pancakes now I’m a topic jumpin’ maddog. Used to be that I’d click the top **Straight Dope Message Board** link thingy and have to start all over again.
Not anymore I can jump head first into any forum I want.
I am still in awe…
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/2 "2001-10-10T01:00:15Z")
OK, confession time.
[sub]I never, _ever_ use that feature. I ALWAYS travel via the main page.[/sub]
There, I said it. Whew. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/3 "2001-10-10T13:55:16Z")
“Every time a Doper figures out another vB feature, a wee fairy is born, up in the stars…”
🙂
[sub]Here at this end, they’re still talking about the day Ducky discovered there was a link to the Home Page at the bottom, so she could go read the Column being discussed in Comments for herself without having to open a New Window, and then come right back to Comments with the Back button…[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/4 "2001-10-10T15:16:21Z")
Way back when, in the dark days before Sir Jerry saved us, using Forum Jump was a lost cause. My typical routine would be to open up the main page, then launch each forum in a new window. Eventually they would all load.
Now that the pages load at a more reasonable rate, I too am now a fan of the forum jump. If I am allowed but two quibbles about it: 1) I would also put it at the top of the page so that I don’t have to scroll all the way down to use it, and 2) I would make it an automatic jump once I selected a forum - none of this pressing the GO button for me.
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/5 "2001-10-10T15:39:50Z")
Am I the only one that has **always** used forum jump? I thought it was the only way to do it.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/6 "2001-10-10T19:32:51Z")
You’re such a rebel, Reeder. 😃
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/7 "2001-10-10T23:08:15Z")
DDG…
And damn proud of it…
I think…
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/8 "2001-10-12T22:04:09Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Reeder \*
> \*\*Am I the only one that has **always** used forum jump? I thought it was the only way to do it. \*\*
You’re not the only one. I also navigate almost exclusively through forum jump.
[sub]Does that make me a rebel too?[/sub]
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/9 "2001-10-13T03:20:31Z")
Used to use the forum jump almost exclusively. Then I learned the forumid numbers. Now may favorites are set with the forum number being the first character in the name of the link. Thus, [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?&forumid=7](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?&forumid=7) is now, in my favortes list, “7 SDMB Great Debates”. With a quick tap of Alt, a, 7 I am well on my way.
IMHO and CS don’t fit well with that, but I don’t go ther emuch anyway.
I’ve also created a JavaScript enabled frames page with a text field in it where I type “GQ” or “TBBQP” and it forum jumps for me. Anything to not use a damn mouse! 😛
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-jump/86438/10 "2001-10-13T04:00:31Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by BuddhaDog \*
> \*\*I love this feature! I cant believe I never noticed it before!
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> I know that I am stating the obvious but Holy Pancakes now I’m a topic jumpin’ maddog. \*\*
Hey **BuddhaDog** , Welcome to the Secret Society of Forum Jumpers! I’m a recent convert too and think it’s a nifty feature of Vb.
Also, according to DDG, we just birthed a couple of fairies! :eek: