# Problem children / punch list for fixes / TIPS AND TRICKS **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044 "2020-06-22T01:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/385 "2020-07-08T13:44:34Z")
Press the # key. Press ? for a full list of keyboard shortcuts. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/386 "2020-07-08T14:07:02Z")
There are a couple of ways to get to the end of a thread, but you can replace the post number at the end of the url with the last post number of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/387 "2020-07-08T15:34:45Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Anyone know how to do this? Below the scroll bar they show the time of the last post. Click on it and you’ll get teleported to the end of the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/388 "2020-07-08T16:09:34Z")
Thanks everybody! Nobody told me what the heck I actually did, though. I typed the number of the last post into a box! And I haven’t smoked dope in many years, I promise. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/389 "2020-07-08T16:39:36Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Nobody told me what the heck I actually did, though Type # and the box will open again. Then you can write the number of the post you want to go to. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/390 "2020-07-08T18:01:47Z")
FYI the coding for strikethroughs is “\< s \> \< /s \>” minus the spaces. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/391 "2020-07-08T18:23:12Z")
How does one get the post number to display? I have found that by clicking Reply it displays the post number and then I can press Cancel. This is ridiculous. How to get it to show all the time? ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/392 "2020-07-08T18:30:15Z")
I see it over to the right at the bottom of the slider bar. It probably depends on which theme you’re using, though. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/393 "2020-07-08T22:51:56Z")
And the numbers may not line up precisely with the post. On my screen they always seem to be a couple of posts off (I can easily tell, because, for example, the numbers say I’m at post 386 or 387 out of 388; but I’m all the way at the bottom of the page. And I just clicked on the 4h at the top of the post (clicking reply only gets me a reply box, not a number) and that says the post at the bottom is actually #392; but it’s also got my name on it, so I’m not sure this one’s not #392, but in that case what happened to #388 through #391? – the 1m at the top of my post says it’s #393. But the bar opposite says it, and the last post, is #389. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/394 "2020-07-08T23:12:55Z")
It should give the number of the post at the top of the screen, but that’s not necessarily the post that you’re reading at that moment. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/395 "2020-07-08T23:19:00Z")
You’re partly right. Apparently even if the only thing of a post visible at the top of my screen is the chain-dot-reply, and the post itself is off the screen, the slider numbers give the number of that basically invisible post. However: At the moment, the post at the top of the screen is yours that I’m replying to. The numbers by the slider read 390/390; I’m all the way at the bottom of the page and moving it down further only takes the slider off the screen, it doesn’t change the numbers. But if I click on the “6m” at the top of that post, which the slider claims is #390, it says that it’s post #394. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/396 "2020-07-08T23:27:26Z")
I see what you mean now. That is weird— I wonder if it’s counting deleted posts or something. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/397 "2020-07-09T00:34:04Z")
I wondered that also. But whatever’s causing the discrepancy, it’s certainly going to make it awkward to refer to posts by number. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/398 "2020-07-09T02:43:37Z")
A new oddity–the separator line between new and old has vanished today. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/399 "2020-07-09T14:30:20Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > But I like to read them threaded, chemobrain makes it sort of difficult to track sometimes [hell, I have been known to forget what I was saying halfway through a paragraph occasionally] so I want them to present threaded as default =) They do default present threaded at the appropriate place in the thread. The nested posts are duplicate links to the posts. Just skip them. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/400 "2020-07-09T15:06:30Z")
People are discussing it [here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-new-posts-red-line/914822). ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/401 "2020-07-13T04:49:37Z")
Something new for me, the notifications list you get when you click on your (alphabet) avatar at the top now has text approximately 3 times larger than it was. Not a major problem, but all the same, any ideas why? I don’t _think_ it was anything on my end, I haven’t changed any settings anywhere, but I also don’t seem to have any control over the size of the text. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/402 "2020-07-14T00:42:00Z")
If I look at my summary page, among the statistics shown, it says “1.1k topics created”. That’s a lot more than I remember and if I look at the page that shows all the topics (threads on the old board), I only see about 120-130 listed. Is this statistic invalid for others? ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/403 "2020-07-14T02:03:16Z")
Yes, inaccurate. It says I had 110 topics created. I probably had 10 at most on the old board and here I don’t think I have any. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/404 "2020-07-14T03:35:34Z")
Maybe it counts all your hijacks and off-topic posts as new topics? 🙃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044.md?page=21)