Yes thanks somehow it started working 
I think you need to go from careers to one of the two subfora within careers. You picked “general”.
If I’m reading a post and want to see what post they were responding to (if it wasn’t quoted), I can click the little icon thing and go to the post - which is great and helpful.
Is there a way to easily jump back to where I was in the thread? I’ve just been scrolling down and finding it, but if there is a link or something I don’t know about that would be nice. The “back” button on the browser takes me out of the thread entirely and back to the list of threads.
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Back on the AO when I clicked a link it would open in a new tab/window.
Here, when I click a link it does not open in a new tab. Rather, it opens over the existing tab. Is there a personal setting somewhere that affects this or am I relegated to trying to remember to right click on links?
There are some settings in preferences/interface that will help with that.
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When I click on the swoopy arrow to go to VA’s post…first, it just displays immediately above my post…then, if I click on the up arrow it’ll take me all the way up to that post. Finally, on the LLHS of his post is “1 Reply [upside down caret]”. Clicking on that, as before, immediately displays my post underneath his…then, I can click on the down arrow to get back from whence I came.
Maybe I have some special setting set up especially set for me.
That seems to be working okay on the computer. The arrow doesn’t show up (at least, not that I’ve noticed) on the phone - just the icon and it takes you to the post instead of recreating it above the post I’m looking at. The “reply” thing might help there though.
Thanks
Oh…yes…that was all done on a pc. I didn’t realize you kids these days with your computer phones were chatting and texting with each other on an actuarial message board :heynow:. …and get off my lawn!
Yes, although I forget where. That drove me nuts.
I haven’t figured out how to change that in the Discourse app on my phone, though.
I have a dumb question and don’t want to make a new thread just to ask it. If you’re in a long-ass thread that you haven’t read before, is there a way to skip to the bottom? Thus far, I’ve only been able to scroll and scroll and scroll.
Yes. If you click on the box with the post number you’re on, it brings up a little screen and there’s a “jump to” button. You can put in the post number you want to go to.
that seems to work on the phone app, but doesn’t work on my PC.
I don’t use goactuary on my pc, so I’m not sure about that one. Does command down arrow work? Or does it just take you to the bottom of the posts that have already loaded?
On firefox, over to the right is a slider. Using that is faster than scrolling. Your post is 37/42. This post is 42/42.
ah, i see the slider now. not sure what NA means by command down arrow.
On a pc, she meant “Ctrl+[down arrow]”…brings you to the very very bottom of a page.
btw, this is the thread for dumb questions related to GoActuary, too, even if you’re not old and cranky like the OP, who happens to be me.
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ah, ctrl down arrow does nothing. the page down button gets me there relatively quickly.