# Sudden unwanted upward scrolling **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [July 29, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779 "2022-07-29T12:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/1 "2022-07-29T12:36:52Z")
I’ve observed this annoying quirk both on Firefox on a desktop computer, and in Safari on an iPad. In longer threads (yesterday it happened in a mere 31 post thread though) I’ll be scrolling down the thread skimming / browsing it, when suddenly, for seemingly no good reason, it suddenly, quickly scrolls many posts upward. Anybody else notice this? Is is something I’m maybe inadvertently triggering-- a feature, not a bug? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/2 "2022-07-29T12:42:28Z")
Discourse sometimes jumps around. Probably especially on Firefox. You might log the behavior in the [Scrolling Jumps Around Quite a Bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrolling-jumps-around-quite-a-bit/956803) thread. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/3 "2022-07-29T12:42:59Z")
I’ve noticed this on my iPhone, but assume it happens due to an unintended touch. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/4 "2022-07-29T12:44:43Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > You might log the behavior in the [Scrolling Jumps Around Quite a Bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrolling-jumps-around-quite-a-bit/956803) thread. Thanks, I skimmed ATMB but I didn’t know there was another thread about this and didn’t think to check Site Feedback. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/5 "2022-07-29T12:53:13Z")
Futzing around with it, I get jumps on Firefox when I’m at the border of a “page load”, where Discourse has to load the next batch of posts. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/6 "2022-07-29T14:32:56Z")
> [@solost](#): > > didn’t think to check Site Feedback Site Feedback is actually monitored by the software developers, so anything that is about Discourse itself belongs there. I’ll move this for you. Moved from ATMB to Site Feedback. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/7 "2022-07-29T21:45:04Z")
I’ve regularly experienced the inexplicable “jumping” when scrolling up or down in posts. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/8 "2022-07-29T23:53:08Z")
For the brief period when scrolling avatars were eliminated, so was the “jumping back” behavior. It was wonderful for a few days. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/9 "2022-07-30T00:01:34Z")
I’ve seen it in Opera too. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/10 "2022-07-30T00:04:52Z")
Hmm. Maybe that’s why I don’t experience it, since I disabled that feature. But I only did so with CSS, which should leave the actual script intact. Anyways, if it might help, you can try downloading my user script and then going to the profile options (in the usual place) to turn off the sticky avatars. No promises it will help, but maybe. > **[About | SDMB Tweaker 2 | Userscripts | OpenUserJS](https://openuserjs.org/scripts/BigTSDMB/SDMB_Tweaker_2)** > > New tweaks for the new(er) Discourse SDMB Be sure to install [TamperMonkey](https://www.tampermonkey.net/) for your browser first if you haven’t already, or it won’t work. (I also really need to update that script at some point.) ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/11 "2022-07-30T00:06:58Z")
Thank you. I’d like to see it fixed for everyone on the Board, but if it seems like something the Discourse team is disinclined to prioritize, I’ll take you up on that! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/12 "2022-07-30T00:10:13Z")
‘It lets you reread the posts you just read! It’s a feature not a bug!’ ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/13 "2022-07-30T00:10:32Z")
I was only thinking as a temporary measure if it’s causing problems. I know most people like the sticky avatars. I need to actually update the thing with the features I’ve added on my local copy before I think there’s really enough tweaks to be worthwhile, like adding an underline button, adding the years to dates, stopping Discourse from deleting quotes, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/14 "2022-07-30T19:39:26Z")
This happens on my iPhone/Safari sometimes. Only with long threads. Sometimes the “back” button appears to bring me back down and undo the scroll up, sometimes it doesn’t. It’s annoying but doesn’t happen often enough to really bother me. ---
**Author:** ![a6ka97](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@a6ka97](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a6ka97)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/15 "2022-08-07T19:21:39Z")
X2. At least I found out it isn’t happening only to me. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-unwanted-upward-scrolling/968779/16 "2022-08-07T19:25:32Z")
It does happen often enough to annoy me.