Problem with navigation

[Columbo]

OK, so I am viewing a long list of new posts. I scroll way down and click on a thread. Then when I go back instead of showing me where I was in the list it shows starting at the top of the list. Then I have to find my place again. To get around it, I have just been launching the threads by 'open in new tab' but it's annoying. Is there any mitigation? Thank you.

[Baldrick]

Which browser? Any adblocker?

If I go back it scrolls down where I was. I'm using chrome.

I will probably never upgrade this old forum.

edit: Same happens now here. For new posts and forum lists. I have no idea why.

[Baldrick]

If I disable javascript it doesn't scroll to top. I will try find that function.

[Baldrick]

It was the very old javascript hover function that didn't work properly. It shows the first post when you hover over a thread title.

I will replace it with a modern hover function.

[Baldrick]

Does it work better now?

[Columbo]

Yes Sir, works good now. Thank you!

[thecoalman]

I will probably never upgrade this old forum.

I know you have a lot of custom stuff going on which is a lot of work any way you slice it but that aside you are in pretty good position to convert to phpBB. There is plenty of resources for converting older VB installs, not so much for newer ones. Depends on the version but there is probably a drop in converter available. Normal process for this is find converter that will work with your VB version to covert to any version of phpBB. After that it's cake walk to get latest version of phpBB.

[Baldrick]

I will probably never upgrade this old forum.

I know you have a lot of custom stuff going on which is a lot of work any way you slice it but that aside you are in pretty good position to convert to phpBB. There is plenty of resources for converting older VB installs, not so much for newer ones. Depends on the version but there is probably a drop in converter available. Normal process for this is find converter that will work with your VB version to covert to any version of phpBB. After that it's cake walk to get latest version of phpBB.

The biggest problem is that for newer phpbb or vbulletin I need a newer PHP version. But that PHP version doesn't work on the rest of the site. So I either have to rewrite the main site from scratch or find a way to run multiple PHP versions with Apache.

[thecoalman]

Current version of phpBB will run on 7.4, phpBB4 is set for release soon and I believe will require 8.2

So I either have to rewrite the main site from scratch ....

This will give you forum wrapper on custom pages. :

<?php
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = (defined('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH')) ? PHPBB_ROOT_PATH : './';
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin();
$auth->acl($user->data);
$user->setup(); 


$template->assign_vars(array(
    'HELLO_WORLD' => 'Hello world!',
));


page_header('Hello World!');

$template->set_filenames(array(
    'body' => 'hello_world.html',
));

page_footer();

hello_world.html

<!-- INCLUDE overall_header.html -->
<p>{HELLO_WORLD}</p>
<!-- INCLUDE overall_footer.html -->

or find a way to run multiple PHP versions with Apache

I don't know how they do it but on WHM/Cpanel server you can set different PHP versions per directory with directive in .htacces file

[Columbo]

Personally, I don't see any need to upgrade the forum to phpbb. Just my $0.02.