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Well, Legoburner is in the middle of traveling right now. He's seen the comments, but if anything can be done, it won't be for at least a little while.

I could swear I've gotten a hashed URL from a view first unread (by hovering) but can't duplicate it right now.

edit: I'm not demanding a fix in 10 minutes or anything... it's just frustrating.
Maybe I should DCM because it feels like I have bitched too much about it.

Been having the same issue on my iPhone 4s at least 50% of the time when i hit first unread or after i make a post update.

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here is a copy of one of the URLS

Yes! For the love of The Emperor, please fix this one! I get it quite a bit on my iPad and iPhone. Amazingly annoying as others have noted!

Valete,

JohnS

This is happening to me as well, but only when I post a reply on a thread or send a PM.

Okay, this is weird.

The main annoyance I have is that hitting back goes back to where I was before loading the thread and the "view first unread" is gone.

Just playing around I figured out that if you click "view first" and "bounce" the page (just drag up and down) while its loading and the page has a google ad, the google ad will take over but hitting back will take you to the new post in the thread with no ad loaded at the top.

azreal13 wrote:For the record, although I'm getting an issue on an ipad, I'm using Chrome as my browser.

It only started happening yesterday, after experiencing a few hours where I was unable to open the site due to a DNS lookup error.

Don't know if they're related, but it does seem like a coincidence if they're not.

1st of all Chrome on iOS is not actually Chrome. It's nothing more then a front end app that uses Safari as its core. Think of it more like a skinned app... You're seeing Chrome, but in actuality you're still using Safari. Sorry, needed to get that out of the way, it irks me.


Anyway, this issue is happening to me as well. Somewhat glad to see I'm not the only one.

Curious, have those that can (DCMs and mods) tried turning off adverts? I just did, will report on results.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Curious, have those that can (DCMs and mods) tried turning off adverts? I just did, will report on results.

Initial testing I have done seems to indicate that it does work but turning ads off seems to have affected other things for some reason - I seem to be unable to jump to the last post properly and the formatting on the reply screen is buggered up. Not sure i this is simply due to having the ads turned off or some other bug but I never noticed it before.


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Addendum: it seems only certain threads display the strange behaviour after turning ads off. This thread, for example, when pressing the jump to last post button, for some reason goes to Yakfaces's post at the top of page 2. Likewise, when posting a reply, the window is all messed up and strangely formatted - I had to manually zoom right in to see the reply box properly. However, other threads are fine - I tested a few in OT just to see and they behaved as expected.

Mine also jumped to yaks post, but I didn't have the reply box issue (iPad for what it's worth).

Since people have asked about android: I've never had this happen running android. Also: what google ads? I thought those only showed up when one wasn't logged in? The only ad I see is the banner at the top next to the title logo (unless that's what you're talking about; I think "adwords" when I hear "google ads").

There are some obnoxious behaviors when loading a tab with a # in the URL, but only if you're not looking at it when it jumps down to the tag (opening a first unread tab then going and reading an already loaded thread in the meantime), but those still load the page in question, and I'm chalking it up to smartphone browsers just being generally horrible at everything.

Yes, there's google ads in the banner at the top right of the page sometimes.


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http://imgur.com/riHsjD6

Hashed URL, google ad, no redirection.

This is mind boggling.

This appears to be getting worse, if anything. It's now almost every time I post, click on 'First Unread' and even occasionally when I click back from being diverted it re-diverts me back to another ad.

Same here.

Though I've taken to simply clicking the last page that I was on and scrolling around until I find where I left off.

Turn off ads for those that can, issue has vanished.

This wouldn't be Nearly so annoying if you didn't lose the First Unread link when it happened. Hitting back take you back to the index rather than the post you were on, and then the First Unread link no longer work and you have to try and figure out where you were in the thread.

 AduroT wrote:
This wouldn't be Nearly so annoying if you didn't lose the First Unread link when it happened. Hitting back take you back to the index rather than the post you were on, and then the First Unread link no longer work and you have to try and figure out where you were in the thread.

Exactly!

It is killing my mobile device browsing of Dakka Dakka!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Turn off ads for those that can, issue has vanished.

This works for my iPad but I do encounter the new problems noted by Filbert.

It is an improvement though.

If it helps, I didn't start having this problem until I updated to ios 6.1.3.

 Alpharius wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
This wouldn't be Nearly so annoying if you didn't lose the First Unread link when it happened. Hitting back take you back to the index rather than the post you were on, and then the First Unread link no longer work and you have to try and figure out where you were in the thread.

Exactly!

It is killing my mobile device browsing of Dakka Dakka!

Ditto.

 Alpharius wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
This wouldn't be Nearly so annoying if you didn't lose the First Unread link when it happened. Hitting back take you back to the index rather than the post you were on, and then the First Unread link no longer work and you have to try and figure out where you were in the thread.

Exactly!

It is killing my mobile device browsing of Dakka Dakka!

Strangely, my productivity at work has increased proportionally.

I was very much hoping that google or apple would fix the problem but it has remained consistent. As top priority I am going to add a workaround to avoid displaying google adverts in the situations where this would be activated, thereby removing all trace of the problem. I should have this done by some point next week.

You da man, as always.

Thanks Lego - much appreciated!

I don't know if it's related or not but "First Unread" link seems to sporadically malfunction when the google add malfunction doesn't happen. Instead of bringing me to my last unread post it brings me to a much earlier one on the last page.

Thanks Lego.
The loss of last post and going for the last page was annoying.

Make it stop! my mobile browsing of Dakka is in peril!

Thank you Lego! It is a very annoying issue to be sure for us iOS guys!

A rough fix is now in place. It breaks the header visually a bit but I will fix that later. For now enjoy functional browsing again iOS people.

Thank you.