Ok, I think you are reporting on a know bug I'm working on.
Just so I'm clear, you are talking about going to the second (or 3rd or 4th etc) page while reading posts in a specific thread?
I checked, and all of you who reported this are running in Hybrid mode.
Read on only if you wanna know why, otherwise, sleep well knowing the issue is being worked on. For now, I'd suggest either switching to Linear Mode or using the scrolling box of posts to navigate.
Long explanation:
This bug exists in Hybrid mode only. Has to do with what Steve and I discussed as being a "logical issue" with Hybrid mode.
If you look in the scrolling box that lists the posts, you'll see levels of replies. It happens if someone replies to a specific post.
Original Post (OP)
- Reply1 - OP
- Reply2 - OP
Reply3 - OP
### Reply4 - Reply3
### Reply5 - Reply3
- Reply6 - OP
etc etc
So, what happens is if you clicked on "Reply3 - OP", it opens that post and the replies to it (Reply4 and 5). It also renumbers Reply3 as #1.
We have a global site setting of 15 posts per page. So if there were 16 replies to Reply3, you'd then see the Page 1 of 2.
Now comes the rub, Reply3 becomes what is called an Anchor post. BTW, the Original Post is also an Anchor Post. Its done that way so it becomes the first post you see. Due to rules in vbSEO, the anchor post is attached to the url.
Page 1 looks like this: index.php#postReply3-OP
Page 2 looks like this: index2.php#postReply3-OP
Thats the problem. Page two has the Anchor Post defined as part of the URL. The way that gets handled is when you go to "Page 2", it loads, and then jumps to the Anchor Post. Sadly, when there is more than one page, it jumps back to the top and blamo, you see this behavior.
I thought I found a fix, but it broke something else. Classic grief.....
I think we'll end up having to disable some parts of vbSEO and maybe change some code to allow the behavior of going to the next page while in hybrid mode.
I checked some other sites such as sawmill creek. They run in hybrid mode but do not use vbseo to manage the urls.
Without vbSEO we'd have some poor results from Google Searches. So its really something we want to keep.
Its not looking simple, so please bear with me while I work on it.
Thanks,
Jim
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