When I post a comment, the page reloads. When the page reloads, it jumps to "#comment".

October 3, 2006 12:15 PM

When I post a comment, the page reloads. When the page reloads, it jumps to "#comment". This bugs me, and I don't think it used to happen. What this means in practice is that if I refresh the page to follow a thread, the reloaded page jumps to "#comment". Grrr. Intentional? Good? Bad? Ugly?
posted by jdroth to Bugs at 12:15 PM (27 comments total)

I can't remember it doing anything else. Metafilthy is quite handy for this, you know.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:18 PM on October 3, 2006

Maybe I'm just commenting more often so that I'm noticing it more. What's metafilthy? Actually, I should just follow the threads from my contributions page, shouldn't I?
posted by jdroth at 12:21 PM on October 3, 2006

I think there's a greasemonkey script that causes this behavior, it's supposed to take you to the new comments in a thread. Have you installed any greasemonkey scripts recently?
posted by Mr. Gunn at 12:23 PM on October 3, 2006

Not a greasemonkey user. It's a code thing. Matt's got it coded to jump to "theadXX#comment", which it dutifully does. Maybe this isn't a bug report -- if this is historic behavior, maybe this is a pony request. A teeny tiny pony.
posted by jdroth at 12:28 PM on October 3, 2006

jdroth writes "What's metafilthy?"

It's here, and it's good. I can't tell you who wrote it though.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:30 PM on October 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

The origins of metafilthy have been lost in the mists of time.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 12:33 PM on October 3, 2006

They say it was fashioned out of a Novaya Zemlya tree bark by the lost tribe of Israel.
posted by riotgrrl69 at 12:39 PM on October 3, 2006

I hear it was brought back to Europe from the New World by early Spanish sailors, then when it was reintroduced in America the Yanks took credit for it.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:44 PM on October 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

Hm. This Metafilthy — is it PC-only, or am I just an idiot for not figuring out how to install it on a Mac? (In other words: I downloaded it to my Powerbook, but can't fet Firefox to recognize it, and don't know what to do with a XPI extension. Aren't I helpless today?)
posted by jdroth at 12:50 PM on October 3, 2006

I could take out the target, but I like seeing my own comment after I write it. Don't you hate having to scroll down and make sure it posted?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:28 PM on October 3, 2006

jdroth writes "Hm. This Metafilthy — is it PC-only, or am I just an idiot for not figuring out how to install it on a Mac?"

It works on Firefox on Mac, up to the lastest FF version. Try downloading the xpi to your desktop and dragging it into Firefox.
posted by orthogonality at 1:33 PM on October 3, 2006

Matt, I don't mind scrolling down so much because that's the behavior I expect after posting a comment someplace. Also, I still have scroll after posting a comment with the current setup — I just have to scroll up. (The #comment target is the comment box itself.)

Ortho, thanks. I'm not sure why I didn't think of that on my own. Installed and ready for use next time I relaunch Firefox.
posted by jdroth at 1:39 PM on October 3, 2006

metafilthy is a zionist conspiracy
posted by cortex at 4:24 PM on October 3, 2006

I could redirect to your posted comment, because personally I find being pushed to the top of the page off-putting on other blogs. I always figured it was a nice feature to auto-scroll you down.

Back when the footer was minimal, you could plainly see your comment on most monitor configurations, now I guess it goes down too far if you have a 1024x768 setup.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:34 PM on October 3, 2006

Probably not a big deal either way, Matt. At least you're aware of it!
posted by jdroth at 5:35 PM on October 3, 2006

I could redirect to your posted comment...

*claps hands*
*backflips*
posted by carsonb at 5:56 PM on October 3, 2006

*monitors most conflagrations*
posted by If I Had An Anus at 8:49 PM on October 3, 2006

When I post a comment, the page reloads. When the page reloads, it jumps to "#comment". You poor fucking bastard, shit man I don't know you or anything but you have my sympathies. I can only pray you get the fuck over it.
*backs out of thread, genuflecting generously*
posted by econous at 2:41 AM on October 4, 2006

I like seeing my own comment after I write it.
This shit just writes it's self.
posted by econous at 2:43 AM on October 4, 2006

I could redirect to your posted comment, because personally I find being pushed to the top of the page off-putting on other blogs. I always figured it was a nice feature to auto-scroll you down.

At the very least, Matt, you should send a 301 redirect after the post anyhow. That'll prevent reloads from re-posting comments (doesn't happen too often, but, yeah, it does happen). Just in case you're worried, back won't re-post either, since the interstitial post won't get saved in the browser's history.
posted by Plutor at 3:44 AM on October 4, 2006

Metafilter: I like seeing my own comment after I write it.
posted by klangklangston at 6:01 AM on October 4, 2006

(On the whole, I like that it scrolls down, but yeah, the spacing is often off).
posted by klangklangston at 6:01 AM on October 4, 2006

You poor fucking bastard, shit man I don't know you or anything but you have my sympathies. I can only pray you get the fuck over it.

There are people who are good at this sort of thing, and then there's econous.
posted by cortex at 6:11 AM on October 4, 2006

I'd discourage you from metafilthy, personally. I realize a lot of people use it happily but the period of time I was using it was also the period of time my Firefox would blow up on a near daily basis. Uninstalling it - and no other changes - did away with the constant kabooms.
posted by phearlez at 8:22 AM on October 4, 2006

What do you mean by "blow up", phearlez? I've been getting severe cases of the memory leakage lately (FF1.5/XP SP2) , but I thought that was just Firefox.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:18 AM on October 6, 2006

I mean a flat-out crash, boom, all Firefox windows gone, hello QA agent. Roughly 4 times in an 8 hour day.
posted by phearlez at 10:37 AM on October 6, 2006

Ok, thanks. I get that almost never, on installs with or without MetaFilthy.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:57 AM on October 6, 2006