BigT
September 27, 2021, 3:20pm
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Kzbre5m:
Scrolling up (towards the top of the page), I sometimes get “jumps”, either down or up a couple of posts (not sure which), at the ads. This I understand to be a known issue because of reasons. (I don’t remember where I read this.)
Yes, this is the issue I am describing. I was told
Kzbre5m:
On my android phone (I don’t log into SDMB on my phone), and “Samsung Internet”, scrolling down towards the bottom of the thread, it sometimes get stuck at around 18 of whatever posts, and not go down any further. There’s an ad there and refuse to go any more. I can click on the 18/whatever box, use the scroll bar to jump around the blockage, but then that box disappears so I have to remember what the last post had written to get back up to it. The 18/whatever box shows up at the bottom at the “stuck” point, so I’m guessing Discourse thinks it’s at the bottom and doesn’t need to go any further downward.
This, however, is a problem being described in a different thread. Your insight about it having to do with the ads may be relevant, so I’d post about that in the other thread.
For the last week(ish) I’ve notice that the board gets stuck while scrolling. It doesn’t seem to matter which thread I’m in, I can scroll down to around 20 posts and then it just gets stuck. There is a kind of “window wiper” sort of thing going on for a few seconds and then the page stops trying to load and there is nothing there. I have to go to the up/down super scroll arrow box on the side to get to the posts that are supposed to be there, and it seems that they are really there, but I ju…