I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile app.
I think it used to, but recently it has been bad.
Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position
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#13What I really want is an extension that will let me open a retweet by right clicking and opening it in new tab. That way I don't lose my scroll position and can get a collection of things I want to read. I went looking for such a thing but couldn't find it. I did find Control Panel for Twitter though, which is a great improvement.
You can also right click on the date (next to the username), that is a proper link which has the open in new tab option.
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#14I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile app.
It works surprisingly well most of the time.
There is an extremely annoying bug though where sometimes a random tweet will just disappear from the timeline. You'll get a brief glimpse and it suddenly disappears. And you may or may not come across it later. As though it jumped further down the line.
Anyone else notice that? What in the world might be happening there? This has been an issue for at least a couple years now.
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#15I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile app.
Agreed; in fact, I've wondered how they managed to make it work so well previously. (But, haven't used Twitter lately, so maybe it broke.)
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#16I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile app.
Twitter loses your scroll position when you go from a Tweet thread to a reply thread, then come back. This is what the extension fixes.
Twitter does keep your scroll position when you go from a "top-level" view ("For you", "Following", ...) to a Tweet thread, then come back.
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#17I just developed a Chrome extension using a content script, very similar to this extension.
Extension author, question: What was your process for getting updates from the content.js script loaded into the browser for testing? Was it reloading the extension through chrome://extensions?
The only thing I found that could work was changing the content script and reloading the extension through chrome://extensions. I didn't see any type of "shortcut" available. Frustrating, and increased time on my change/test feedback loop.
It got to a point where I moved the core logic from my extension into a separate npm package where I got it working through unit tests. Then my browser extension became primarily working with the DOM, and incorporating the results from my package.
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Re: Show HN: I made an extension to keep Twitter from losing my scroll position
#18I'm surprised to see this, because for all its flaws, Twitter is one of the very few apps that don't lose scroll position for me on either the web or the mobile app.
Twitter loses your scroll position when you go from a Tweet thread to a reply thread, then come back. This is what the extension fixes. Twitter does keep your scroll position when you go from a "top-level" view ("For you", "Following", ...) to a Tweet thread, then come back.
I cannot reproduce this, but I don't doubt it happens for other users. Guess I am in the lucky bucket. Maybe Firefox users get an older version without some new "improvements". :)
Edit: Nevermind, it happens to me as well, I just never noticed.
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#19was this working in the past?
Not sure. I just found myself noticing the scroll-position loss repeatedly over a few weeks of browsing Twitter, and figured I didn't have to wait for an official fix.
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#20was this working in the past?
Yes, definitely (for me at least) - broke a while ago, not exactly sure when.