Trouble accessing older posts

5 years ago

Lately when I scroll down through posts to read older ones, they are all one long never ending scroll rather than a dozen or so on a page, and you get to the end, go to next page, etc. If I scroll 30 or however many posts down & click on a post to read it, then back out when I'm done, it takes me ALL the way back up to very 1st post & then to get back to where I was at previously, I have to scroll, scroll, SCROLL! Both my phone & laptop are like this. Does this happen to anyone else? It deters me from reading very far down b/c its frustrating!

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gdinieontarioz5

5 years ago

My address bar shows gardenweb.com, and I have had this never ending list since the new format was introduced. Very irritating.

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User
5 years ago
Make sure your address bar is www.gardenweb.com not www.houzz.com. Garden Web works better for us. Hover over "Stories & Advice" Click on Garden Web to change the address bar. Houzz works better for shopping. Also, don't use the app if you are on a smart phone.
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Rebecca/N. IN/z6A
Original Author
5 years ago
Same here. I just give up about 20-30 posts in. Dont have hours on end to devote to scrolling.
User
5 years ago
What browser are you using? I don't have to scroll. There are page numbers at the bottom. I am on Google Chrome and an Apple Ipad. I deleted the app on the Ipad and just put a bookmark on the home page.
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stupidlazydog CT zone 5b/6a
5 years ago
I'm on Safari and gardenweb.com, and I, too, have to scroll forever. No pages :-(
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gdinieontarioz5
5 years ago
I also have Safari on an iPhone. As I said: endless...
User
5 years ago
Sounds like it is the browser and/or using a smart phone. You might contact Houzz. I know they have said before that it works best on google chrome.
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Rebecca/N. IN/z6A
Original Author
5 years ago
Sherry I was using Safari w/ both an iPod & Macbook but the iPod battery died recently so have been using Chrome on my phone. Have never used aoo, only bookmarked page like you said.
Photo Synthesis
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
I use Google chrome to browse and I get page numbers. It works fine on my Galaxy tablet, but trying to type on here using my phone is too glitchy and the words get jumbled up, no matter how much I go back to correct them. So I only use my tablet or laptop.

Not sure if this works on Safari, because I don't use Apple, but you can press down and hold on whichever thread you want to check out (or right-click on computer) and click "Open in new tab" option. This opens the link up in a new tab, leaving the current one as is. Whenever you're finished with that thread, just close that tab out and it goes back to the previous one right where you left it.
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Treegeek Z6a (Boston)
5 years ago
Same issue here, its annoying. This message board isn't very user friendly.

What works for me is if I go into the APP, and hit my notifications, it will take me to the newest posts, but that's only a topic I am following or posted in before.

The web version of this site is useless, you cant reply there as it automatically parses text.

Wish there was a moderator we could ask for changes, but this isn't a forum and hence no moderators.

Wonder how much it is to buy Gardenweb back and turn into a true forum again? :)