Mastodon: [UX] Clicking a post from the middle of a thread opens it in the last column - but it doesn't scroll automatically to the post you clicked

[Cassolotl]

... so you have to manually scroll to the post you clicked. It's annoying!

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• [ ] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
• [ ] This bug happens on a tagged release and not on master (If you're a user, don't worry about this).

[ThibG]

It works in glitch-soc and there seems to be the code to do that in here also.
Trying to track down why it doesn't work.

[ThibG]

Woops actually no, it doesn't work reliably (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't), neither here nor in glitch-soc.

[Cassolotl]

Thanks for checking though! :)

[Gargron]

It used to work. I don't know which change broke it :confused:

[ThibG]

It works unreliably. The reason is that React is a pain.
Fix incoming.

[Gargron]

FWIW I am sure it worked in 1823cf435a30af3d54e8b2a072df6f8d6fa59c6d and I have suspicions and vague memory that I noticed it not working after 023fe5181b66ba2cbd20cca4e3bd34f132deba52?

[ThibG]

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/commit/023fe5181b66ba2cbd20cca4e3bd34f132deba52 might have made things worse by changing how much of the DOM changes, I guess?

[ThibG]

Btw I wonder if some of our TL scrolling issues aren't due to something like that as well.