How to reproduce:

1. I go to a forum thread I want to search within. e.g. Levers -> "Cafelat Robot User Experience"
2. Perform a search for "pressure profile" using the "search this topic..." box. It gives me this listing of search results. Very nice! All good so far...
3. So I click on the 1st "Jump to post" link to read the 1st post in the listing in more detail. It takes me this page which does NOT contain the post I am interested in. Interestingly, the post can be found on one page older in that long thread.

I can't say it's always like this but I've experienced it numerous times as I got to use this otherwise very useful search feature recently.

Best,

I've noticed the same thing. If I clear the browser cache before clicking the link (just the cache, not the history, cookies, etc), then the problem doesn't occur. This suggests it's a browser artifact.

UPDATE: To discourage the browser from using the cache, I've changed the search code to use a URL like this:
...instead of the "friendly" URL like this:
That forces a browser redirect and thus ignores the browser cache. In my quick test of your steps above, the wrong post problem was avoided.

Thanks for looking into this quickly.

Hmm, clearing the cache didn't work for me (Chromium Edge). Neither did a different browser Firefox. Maybe they share the same artifact.

It looks like the URL change you mention has not been rolled out yet because I still get the old URL in the search results. I did try manually entering the new URL and it does work i.e. takes me to the correct post.

It's working for me, i.e., it's using the "plain" URLs in search and unread posts. I probably should apply the same change for the last post in the forum's topic list since that would likely have the same wrong post problem.

It works now.

HB wrote:I probably should apply the same change for the last post in the forum's topic list since that would likely have the same wrong post problem.

Ah, that may be it. I posted about that issue a few weeks back.