Bad links for "Did you find this post helpful? Yes"

dedec0 · 08-30-2016, 10:20 AM

Recently I used a link to mark a post as helpful, but it did something unexpected: it made me go to the first page of this discussion, and I wondered a bit for a reason to this.

These links seems bad in this aspect: they should always show us the page where the post we marked is, not other pages (for multiple page discussions). And, at best, they may point us to that specific post again, since each post have an anchor.

jeremy · 08-30-2016, 11:38 AM

I can't reproduce the behavior you're describing. It's possible you're blocking javascript in a way that will not allow LQ to mark the post as helpful without re-loading the page.

--jeremy

dedec0 · 08-30-2016, 12:29 PM

Yes, I turn off Javascript most of the time. Turn it off too and you will see exactly what I showed here, including the format of the links that I pasted here (I changed them just to make it more neutral, but I may paste more complete and working examples, if you want).

With JS off, it redirects to another page, not the one that the post is? It is a bug! The link could have been the correct link! It is an improvement!

Further, after I made the post, I discovered that the "not permanent" links the mail messages have are worse due the words used in the last part of the message (which I did not show):

Code:

Here is the message that has just been posted:
***************
Here we read just the start of the message, not it all
***************


There may also be other replies, but you will not receive any more 
notifications until you visit the forum again.

And we will see just the more recent post of the thread at the moment we open that link (not when the mail message was composed); and neither the first that we did not yet read. This is wrong!

jeremy · 08-30-2016, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dedec0

Yes, I turn off Javascript most of the time. Turn it off too and you will see exactly what I showed here, including the format of the links that I pasted here (I changed them just to make it more neutral, but I may paste more complete and working examples, if you want).

With JS off, it redirects to another page, not the one that the post is? It is a bug! The link could have been the correct link! It is an improvement!

I tested with javascript off, and while the page reloads it never takes me to a different thread.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dedec0

Further, after I made the post, I discovered that the "not permanent" links the mail messages have are worse due the words used in the last part of the message (which I did not show):

Code:

Here is the message that has just been posted:
***************
Here we read just the start of the message, not it all
***************


There may also be other replies, but you will not receive any more 
notifications until you visit the forum again.

And we will see just the more recent post of the thread at the moment we open that link (not when the mail message was composed); and neither the first that we did not yet read. This is wrong!

You will always be brought to the first post you have not read, not the most recent. That said, you have already started a dedicated thread for that topic, please don't mix threads together as it makes following/resolving issues very difficult.

--jeremy

dedec0 · 08-30-2016, 01:21 PM

If I said, I did not mean a different thread. I meant I different thread page.

For example: I was in thread page 2, clicked on "helpful" link in a post, and then I was sent to thread page 1.

jeremy · 08-30-2016, 01:36 PM

Thanks for the update. This probably isn't an issue we'll address in the near future, but we'll keep it in mind for a future enhancement.

--jeremy

dedec0 · 08-30-2016, 08:36 PM

No problem. I plan to stay here for a long time, so I can wait.