New Forum Issue: #latest and the back button

SRLM

There's a bug with the #latest feature: say there is a multiple page thread:
My Discussion topicPage 1Page 2Page 3
And your latest view is on Page 2. You click on the thread title, and #latest takes you the middle of the page. Great.
Then you click on a picture and the link takes you to view the big version of the picture. Great.
Then you click back in your browser, and it takes you to Page 3. Bad.
It should take you to the same place you left.

DavidZemon

Ha, I did that exact same thing 30 minutes ago and "WTF?!?"

GordonMcComb

I third this as a bug. The image should be shown in a shadow box, not requiring a back button click. Clicking the back button should return you to your old position, not the end of the thread.
The forum software appears to append #latest at will. I found an image on page 2 of a 3-page discussion, marked to me as being read. Clicked the image, clicked back, and was returned to my spot. Clicked back again. Should have gone to page 1; went to the "latest" on page 3 instead, a page I had not visited.

SRLM

Another case:
My Discussion TopicPage 1Page 2 <- Last seen postPage 3
Go to #latest which takes you to page 2. Then refresh the page, and you end up on page 3. Refreshes are expected to be idempotent, and #latest breaks that.