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Problem with "Latest Reviews" scroll

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If I visit http://techpowerup.com and (accidentally) scroll to the left when I'm already at the beginning of the "Latest Reviews" scroll, the page URL changes to http://techpowerup.com/#<latest_review_id>.

The problem is modern browsers are "helpful" and don't display anchors in the URL bar. Thus, nothing changes visually, but I'm not visiting the page I thought I was anymore. In more than one occasion, I went for days before realizing additional reviews were posted. It would be a huge QoL upgrade if that scroll wouldn't append the anchor when already at the beginning of that list. But I'm not sure how easy/hard it would be to implement the change.
 
It's easy to implement, but not sure if it can solve the underlying problem.

We need the anchor so that the back button takes you to the correct scroll position when you click the back button after clicking a review on the carousel

I've changed it so that clicking the arrows no longer adds the anchors, but that doesn't really make a difference?
 
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W1zzard said:
It's easy to implement, but not sure if it can solve the underlying problem.

We need the anchor so that the back button takes you to the correct scroll position when you click the back button after clicking a review on the carousel

I've changed it so that clicking the arrows no longer adds the anchors, but that doesn't really make a difference?
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Makes the world of a difference to my use case. I can now click the left arrow without worrying of getting stuck on a given review. I see the anchor is still added if I click on the first review and then back in the browser, but since I've never had a problem with that before, I'm not worried about this use case.
 
In a perfect world that box would refresh when a review is posted and show some indication that new reviews has been added, similar to how the frontpage "up next" logic works
 
W1zzard said:
In a perfect world that box would refresh when a review is posted and show some indication that new reviews has been added,
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Should be doable with a websocket or server sent events, I guess.

W1zzard said:
similar to how the frontpage "up next" logic works
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Ah, you have the solution already ;)
 
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