# When quietly reading, thread skips back about a dozen posts: why? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 19, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-quietly-reading-thread-skips-back-about-a-dozen-posts-why/961346 "2022-03-19T16:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-quietly-reading-thread-skips-back-about-a-dozen-posts-why/961346/3 "2022-03-19T19:04:24Z")
Crazy frustrating isn’t it? Seems to have something to do with ads reloading and Chrome browser. Previous thread > [@Annoying board glitch. Is there a fix?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annoying-board-glitch-is-there-a-fix/949362): > > When I’m in a forum and I click on a thread that I’ve previously visited, it takes me to the point in the thread where I last visited. Everything below that is new replies. This is great. Then I start reading the new replies, and scrolling down. after a minute or so, it will suddenly jump back up to the point where I started scrolling from. This is really annoying, because now I have to scroll down and manually find the spot where I had read up to when the thread jumped back. If I’ve got a… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-quietly-reading-thread-skips-back-about-a-dozen-posts-why/961346)._