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Back button (either new feature or an error report)
Back button allows users to retrace their steps through a hierarchy of information. The history cache of the browser is served without an additional request to the server.
The discussion board is embedded ever since you saw the first menu change with the brown-red menu and now with the wordpress menu.
If you are scrolled part way down the page when you use the back button you return to the vicininty of where you were scrolled down the page.
Personally, if I want to go to the list of discussion subjects from within a particular discussion I click discussions from the black bar, rather than the back button because I want to see the freshest information.
What's the difference between "related discussion summary and "discussion summary" out of curiousity.
I did notice the function change. I personally considered the previous behavior broken and now it is working as it should.
Previously if you opened up a thread and backed up via back button a refresh would put you back in the thread instead of refreshing the main thread. I think previous behavior was broken and now it is working right.
Reply to @Maurice: There was certainly nothing in our comments to suggest any discourtesy on your part regarding women. As a matter of fact, I early on fell into the same trap myself, initially assuming that "Chip" was more likely to be a male nickname. So you're in good company there- namely mine.
With respect to past topics, I was merely quoting another poster. Sometimes our past catches up with us.
Or if one gets entangled in a "catch22".........the past may never catch up; being in my case, probably a very most fortunate circumstance. Some catch22's may be alright !!!
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My observations:
Back button allows users to retrace their steps through a hierarchy of information.
The history cache of the browser is served without an additional request to the server.
The discussion board is embedded ever since you saw the first menu change with the brown-red menu and now with the wordpress menu.
If you are scrolled part way down the page when you use the back button you return to the vicininty of where you were scrolled down the page.
Personally, if I want to go to the list of discussion subjects from within a particular discussion I click discussions from the black bar, rather than the back button because I want to see the freshest information.
What's the difference between "related discussion summary and "discussion summary" out of curiousity.
It's a black horizontal bar on my screen.
Previously if you opened up a thread and backed up via back button a refresh would put you back in the thread instead of refreshing the main thread. I think previous behavior was broken and now it is working right.
With respect to past topics, I was merely quoting another poster. Sometimes our past catches up with us.
Sometimes our past catches up with us.
Or if one gets entangled in a "catch22".........the past may never catch up; being in my case, probably a very most fortunate circumstance. Some catch22's may be alright !!!