A question on the way the forum behaves

Thank you for the suggestions, Joe. I also thought I may be the only 'sufferer' for the same reason. It doesn't actually send me up or down the next page, it just moves me on the next page at the same point as the previous.

NSA would sound feasible in this 'Land-of-the-fee, home-of-the-slave' USA, if they actually manufactured anything. We had new water meters fitted in our street yesterday, all proudly stamped 'Made in Israel'. Makes a change from China and Mexico, I suppose.

Anyway, I'll just have to soldier on with very onerous task of having to press the 'pg up' button when visiting TFF.

hector

If only TFF had a member under the age of 35 he would easily explain this to us. I've a feeling that it depends on how clever the gizmo is that you're using to view the site that's the deciding factor. If I read TFF on my ancient tablet ( ipad 1 2010) then like you, I also have to scroll to the top of the page before a 'next' button becomes visible. If I'm using the laptop which I'm typing on now, the various page numbers and 'next' are all available to me straight away at the bottom, with no need to move back up to the top of the page.

I've decided that Florida's computer is a member of the 'teamsters' union; it's done it's part by taking him to a new page, and that's enough effort on it's part. If Florida wants the luxury of being at the top of the page as well, it makes him do the work himself .

I have discovered the answer, purely by accident. I previously had ad-blocker active on TFF so the forum did not need to jump to each new ad at the top of the next page. In my case, wherever I was, was where I was taken to on the next page. Now ad-blocker has been disabled for TFF, as soon as I change page, it positively zooms to the new advert at the top of the next page. Proof if you ever needed it that advertisers control the internet.

I remember when Freeserve or maybe Freenet came in, around the end of the 90's, offering free internet. Thinking about it, I think Freenet may have been the freebie when I was living in Germany. No matter, the point was that both these internet providers reckoned they would make their money from advertisers and a share of the phone line charges, because of course we were all on dial-up then. Broadband may have blown the free dial-uppers out of the water, and brought back internet charges but there's probably more advertisers than ever. I am on the verge of quitting Facebook 'cos there are so many 'shares', which are nothing more than ads dressed up as memes or personal thoughts, overwhelming my newsfeed. We watched an hour of US TV tonight, on DVR thankfully, and only 36 minutes was the actual programme. The rest were adverts. There's just no getting away from the little bar-stewards.