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I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile

I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile app.

josefresco 3y ago
Same here, even after scrolling pretty far (on For you) if I click to open a post(?) and then the "left arrow" to go back to the feed my position is usually the same.
codeptualize 3y ago
I think it used to, but recently it has been bad.
niceice 3y ago
It works surprisingly well most of the time. There is an extremely annoying bug though where sometimes a random tweet will just disappear from the timeline. You'll get a brief glimpse and it suddenly disappears. And you may or may not come across it later. As though it jumped further down the line. Anyone else notice that? What in the world might be happening there? This has been an issue for at least a couple years now.
rmccue 3y ago
Agreed; in fact, I've wondered how they managed to make it work so well previously. (But, haven't used Twitter lately, so maybe it broke.)
ack_inc 3y ago
Twitter loses your scroll position when you go from a Tweet thread to a reply thread, then come back. This is what the extension fixes. Twitter does keep your scroll position when you go from a "top-level" view ("For you", "Following", ...) to a Tweet thread, then come back.
- tomashubelbauer 3y ago
  I cannot reproduce this, but I don't doubt it happens for other users. Guess I am in the lucky bucket. Maybe Firefox users get an older version without some new "improvements". :) Edit: Nevermind, it happens to me as well, I just never noticed.
  - ack_inc 3y ago
    How interesting. I experience this problem on both Chrome and Firefox (v121.0.1 on Ubuntu 22.04). I am mildly curious about why only a subset of Firefox users are experiencing this. Do you mind sharing your Firefox version and OS?
    - tomashubelbauer 3y ago
      I went to do a sanity check using your steps and unfortunately I missed the problem the first time around - when I go to a tweet thread, then a reply thread, then come back to the tweet thread, it is indeed scrolled all the way up to the top. So I was wrong, I am affected by the same issue, I just never realized it until I went looking for it. One positive I'm taking away from this is the realization that I use Twitter less intensively than I thought, because I wouldn't have noticed this without the explicit steps I don't think. :D

I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile app.

josefresco 3y ago

Same here, even after scrolling pretty far (on For you) if I click to open a post(?) and then the "left arrow" to go back to the feed my position is usually the same.

codeptualize 3y ago

I think it used to, but recently it has been bad.

niceice 3y ago

It works surprisingly well most of the time. There is an extremely annoying bug though where sometimes a random tweet will just disappear from the timeline. You'll get a brief glimpse and it suddenly disappears. And you may or may not come across it later. As though it jumped further down the line. Anyone else notice that? What in the world might be happening there? This has been an issue for at least a couple years now.

rmccue 3y ago

Agreed; in fact, I've wondered how they managed to make it work so well previously. (But, haven't used Twitter lately, so maybe it broke.)

ack_inc 3y ago

Twitter loses your scroll position when you go from a Tweet thread to a reply thread, then come back. This is what the extension fixes. Twitter does keep your scroll position when you go from a "top-level" view ("For you", "Following", ...) to a Tweet thread, then come back.

tomashubelbauer 3y ago
I cannot reproduce this, but I don't doubt it happens for other users. Guess I am in the lucky bucket. Maybe Firefox users get an older version without some new "improvements". :) Edit: Nevermind, it happens to me as well, I just never noticed.
- ack_inc 3y ago
  How interesting. I experience this problem on both Chrome and Firefox (v121.0.1 on Ubuntu 22.04). I am mildly curious about why only a subset of Firefox users are experiencing this. Do you mind sharing your Firefox version and OS?
  - tomashubelbauer 3y ago
    I went to do a sanity check using your steps and unfortunately I missed the problem the first time around - when I go to a tweet thread, then a reply thread, then come back to the tweet thread, it is indeed scrolled all the way up to the top. So I was wrong, I am affected by the same issue, I just never realized it until I went looking for it. One positive I'm taking away from this is the realization that I use Twitter less intensively than I thought, because I wouldn't have noticed this without the explicit steps I don't think. :D