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Weird behaviour with "back" button in browser - anyone else?

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BertieBotts · 04/01/2018 21:45

Over the last few days I've noticed if I'm browsing Active, I'm On or a talk topic and click onto a thread from there, when I press back to return to the list of threads afterwards, it often seems to skip that page and go straight to whatever thread I was reading before that, which is very odd. It doesn't happen every time, but enough for me to notice. I have thought maybe I've clicked back twice by mistake and gone forward again, but it's like the interim page is just deleted from my history as though I never visited it at all.

Is anyone else getting this? It's really strange and disorientating.

I'm on Chrome on Windows 10 on a desktop.

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buntingqueen · 07/01/2018 09:48

Yes, me too, safari on iPhone. Thought I’d accidentally been clicking twice. Very annoying!

MsHomeSlice · 07/01/2018 10:32

also, I did a FORWARD from the wrong back page and it goes back to the thread so it is completely losing the Active Threads page somewhere

AristotlesTrousers · 08/01/2018 05:45

This has been happening on my iPad for the last 3 or 4 days too. It's really annoying.

Unicornsandrainbows3 · 08/01/2018 06:01

Same issue here but inly for the last few days.

Kuriusoranj · 08/01/2018 06:33

Yes, same. Android and Chrome.

MamehaSan · 08/01/2018 06:36

Ahha, so it's not me then! It's been doing it to me too (full version of the site on chrome)

PositiveAttitude · 08/01/2018 06:42

Another one here it happens to. I nearly started a thread the other day about this, but thought it must be my laptop and I would look stupid! Blush

ThursdayNextIsMyHero · 08/01/2018 06:53

Positive me too, I've noticed it for a few days too and throught the same. Mobile site, android phone.

ceeveebee · 08/01/2018 06:54

Me too, on mobile site, safari

bigbadbarry · 08/01/2018 06:56

and me!

Whitelisbon · 08/01/2018 06:59

Me too.
It's really annoying.
I'm on my mobile, but it happened when I used the pc the other day too.

daisychicken · 08/01/2018 07:21

Here too. I'm on the app, it's only been the last few days though and it's not consistently happening.

RiceButt · 08/01/2018 09:22

Are MN looking into this? I can't see they have commented on the this thread yet.

xalyssx · 08/01/2018 09:28

Yes I've been having this recently too

QOFE · 08/01/2018 09:37

Yes! Same thing happening here. Clicking back from a thread takes me back to the thread I last read rather than back to active convos.

Sidge · 08/01/2018 09:57

Yup, me too. On the website (not app) on my iPad and MacBook, both running Safari.

No other websites do this, just MN. Leaping around all over the place. Sometimes I click the back button and go back to my browser home page, despite having opened multiple pages since then.

LornaMumsnet · 08/01/2018 11:15

Hi all,

So sorry for any inconvenience this is causing. Just swinging by to say that our tech team are aware of this and they're trying to get to the bottom of the issue.

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LanaKanesLeftNippleTassle · 08/01/2018 11:18

Oh thank fuck it's not just me!

Thought I was doing something weird!

RustyParker · 08/01/2018 12:46

Same thing happening on my chromebook

MrsMooks · 10/01/2018 19:03

Still no fix for this? It's still happening on my phone and tablet. Chrome on Android.

marmitedoughnut · 11/01/2018 06:28

me too, Chrome browser and W10 laptop.

MongerTruffle · 11/01/2018 06:32

It works for me if I wait for the pages to fully load before clicking on a thread.

LornaMumsnet · 11/01/2018 09:10

Hi all,

Thanks for updating us on this issue, our tech team are struggling to replicate but just wanted to let you all know that we're still looking into this and will do our very best to get to the bottom of it.

ShirleyPhallus · 11/01/2018 09:11

Still happening for me

StopCallingMeShirley · 11/01/2018 09:27

Still happening here too.

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