I really don't know the technical terms for asking this question, so sorry if this is unclear. In previous versions of the software, there was clickable text at the bottom left of a thread's page which had the forum's title in the text for returning to the forum index (Ex: "Return to XYZ Forum"). Now it says "Go To Topic Listing". Similarly, to go on to the next unread thread in the forum, the text on the bottom right of the page would be the title of the thread (Ex: "Puppies Are Cute!"). Now it's "Next Unread Topic". Can this be changed locally or not? If yes, how? TIA.

That was changed globally in 4.4.  It was a feature that I really enjoyed using too, but they improved it to work more efficiently for all sizes of communities.  

Don't like it at all, but thanks for your answer. Can you explain how the change is an improvement for some? My squad will want to know.

The coding logic was improved to work better on large or busy boards with a lot of active unread topics.  It's part of the performance targeting in 4.4. 

I was about to post a question about this too, but now I already have the answer. I must say, I think this is a retrograde step in terms of UX, though I understand the performance issues. Out of interest, what represents "large or busy boards"? Can we not simply have an option to turn them on for boards below that threshold? Or just a global toggle? In other words, more choice, less imposed functionality!

Kev

I think I've found an actual bug around this new change. I've noticed that, since upgrading, clicking the Next Unread Topic link results in the error message shown below:

I suspect this might have something to do with threads that have been moved to another forum, but still have the placeholder link in place. In any case, something is amiss!

Kev

4 minutes ago, Large Scale Planes said:

I think I've found an actual bug around this new change.

Open a support topic of you found a bug. 

I'm interested in a plugin to re-enable this functionality as well. Our community while large was not having any performance issues with displaying the next unread topic title underneath the button.

On 2/28/2019 at 8:06 PM, opentype said:

Open a support topic of you found a bug. 

 

Where?

Kev

I think its a bit of a step backwards also, specifically for SEO. But nowadays, speed is a factor with SEO so...pick and choose I guess.

Can you guys not just give us a code snippet to re-enable via plugin instead of in the base code? Removing functionality "because we don't want to support it anymore for large deployments" is really not a great answer. By the way I run a large community and we didn't have performance issues due to this.