I subscribe to threads mostly via email, which have a "Go to this Post" button at the bottom of the message to take you to the post in question.  Any subsequent posts in that particular thread will be after that point.  For the last couple weeks, clicking that button doesn't go to the right post in the thread, instead it goes way upthread, like half a dozen posts or so.  

 

For instance, here's the email, and the "Go to this Post" link is :  https://forum.urbanohio.com/index.php?app=core&module=system&controller=redirect&url=https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/64-cincinnati-east-end-california-development-and-news/?do=findComment%26comment=971705&key=2433395d99a65447839081fd04a49fa2c3b3320c35e194e1db265b87a8e7c491&resource=&email=1&type=notification_new_comment

 

 

Which takes me to @Dev's post from Wednesday at 01:31 PM.  Could this be a cookie problem?  That link seems to be parsing session IDs or other data rather than just directly linking to the post, which would look like https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/64-cincinnati-east-end-california-development-and-news/page/3/?tab=comments#comment-971705

 

I don't really have a clear answer for the issue you're having.  I do know that with the looming update, email tidbits will be changed a bit and will hopefully fix the issue.  No guarantees, but I think we will be updating later this week or this weekend. See how things are working after the update and if the issue continutes, we can investigate further. 

I’ve had a similar challenge, but my “inaccurate links” have been for most direct-to-post links, including “next unread topic” at the bottom of threads, and when I click on a post link labeled by a person’s name. (I don’t use any email features so it has nothing to do with that.) The link lands me 2-6 posts upthread from where the link was supposed to go.  I think it’s been happening for about a week. I’m normally viewing on an iPad. 
 

I’ll keep an eye on if the behavior is fixed once the update goes through. 

Still having this issue on Safari.  It appears that the link takes me to the proper part of the page first, but as embedded images/tweets/videos/etc start loading higher up on the page it pushes my view down past the bottom of the window.  

I suspect that we would have to turn off "lazy loading" to fix this issue.  Maybe we can give it a try and see how things go.

I'm not sure lazy loading is actually the problem if we're already supposed to be going to the bottom of the page.  This issue may be endemic to Safari, or it may be some other factor in the loading process, because I see some possible issues even just respecting simple HTML anchor tags.  Try this for instance:  http://jjakucyk.com/transit/#interurbans  If it's not cached, then on initial page load it goes to the right section, but as the images start to load it gets pushed down the page.  On Firefox and Chrome at least, once the images finish loading it then snaps back to the right position, but maybe the equivalent of this final step is being missed on the forum.  There's a short discussion of a similar problem at https://github.com/github/markup/issues/911 where a solution is making sure that the image size is baked into the source so that the browser builds the page with the correct size blank spaces for the images from the get-go.  Not sure how feasible that is, and my site has the height/width tags in it too, since the images are scaled for high-resolution displays. ?‍♂️