Strange behaviour of page layout in the SAS Global Forum community

[Kurt_Bremser]

I have set my "Linear Layout" in the preferences to display newest messages first, which works well in all forums.

But when I enter a multi-page thread in the SAS GF 2019 group like https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012, I always end up on the "last" page, which for me means the beginning of the thread, even when I explicitly navigate to page 1.

This happens only in the SAS GF community, as far as I can determine.

PS using the included link immediately lands me on page 2 of 4, which is also kind of strange.

[ChrisHemedinger]

@Kurt_Bremser If you examine the URL for the link you shared, it's actually:

  https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012/jump-to/first-unread-message

which directs the page to get you to the first message in the thread that you haven't yet read. 

[Kurt_Bremser]

Yeah, but the first unread message is on page 1, which I cannot reach when "newest first" is set. When I click on the "1", I end up on page 4.

[Kurt_Bremser]

Hi!

Some more information:

When I navigate from my Notifications page to a specific post, I get the correct (#1 because of my "newest first" order) page, and the selected post.

When I navigate to the topic from the SAS Global Forum page, the address is https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012/jump-to/first... which is translated (at the moment) to https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/544975#M189, which also works.

But the "Page 1" link (which is https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012) results in me landing on what is for me page 4, and even entering https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012/page/1 manually reroutes me to https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012, and I'm once again on "my" page 4.

So there is a reroute for the physical page 1 address, and this results in the system not correctly honoring the selected sort order for posts.

And the page 1 link in the internal navigation of the topic is not (as I would expect) https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012/page/1, but https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Global-Forum-2019/What-to-do-in-Dallas/gpm-p/538012