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by stiltzkin 1732 days ago
> Because of infinite scrolling the timeline is a critical component that I don't think we'd ever hide by default. If you enter a topic with 5,000 posts for example... without the timeline you have no way to quickly move through them. With the timeline you can click and drag to jump to the start/end or anywhere else.

Highly agree of the timeline, a useful feature from someone who hates to read new +100 pages on a forum thread.