Forums redirecting to incorrect pages with links and sometimes when going forward/back in browser

In two different cases, the forums seem to redirect visitors to incorrect pages:

- occasionally when I am browsing the forums and hit back/forward in my browser I am taken to a completely different forum thread.

- Occasionally links to specific forum threads redirect to completely different forum threads. I sent a link to someone by email (https://www.giantbomb.com/e3-2018/3015-9042/forums/the-official-ubisoft-thread-1835429/2) and it lead them to (https://www.giantbomb.com/super-mario-world/3030-1334/forums/when-is-mario-going-to-die-2/) instead.

I also tested the forum link from my email and it also redirected me in the same manner.

I'm in Chrome. Many thanks!

Been getting the same issue and i'm using Firefox. It's been happening for awhile now.

I noticed this issue is a result of a url having it's (#) symbol removed once it loads. Typically the URL would be (https://www.giantbomb.com/e3-2018/3015-9042/forums/the-official-ubisoft-thread-1835429/#2) but once you load it the hashtag symbol gets removed, then if you copy the url from your browser it's no longer the original url and it riggity wrecks itself before it checks itself.

I'm a web developer and I don't even know how to mess up navigation this bad:

https://gfycat.com/ThisCloudyEnglishsetter

Yeah, been happening to me too on Firefox.

Same here, Firefox.

Can confirm has been happening for a while already, somehow I thought it was a known bug.

Also been happening to me on Android's chrome browser for a couple weeks.

FireFox with Windows 10, with and without Adblock and Ghostery but with some privacy settings in place (if by any chance that would relate to redirect glitches). Haven't tried Chrome though I'm guessing it would be more of the same.

Safari on iOS as well, and assuming Safari in general? I imagine this is just a general redirecting issue that plagues any browser.

Happens to me in Chrome for both Android and Windows.

In addition to forward/back, it also happens when refreshing a page. Every time it has happened to me, it has brought me to either a 404 page, or a very old thread (9-10 years old).

Another FireFox Windows 10 user here, happening to me too

Also Firefox Windows 10 and this has been happening for weeks now.

This has happened to me on both Android and Chrome. Sometimes simply refreshing the page will result in a completely different topic showing up. A few times I thought it was because I accidentally clicked on something wrong, but after finally being redirected to a Smurfs game page after pressing F5 on a Cyberpunk topic, I think it's totally a bug

Yeah, it happened when I refreshed the page on a couple of forums last week or so. I mentioned it twice in those same forums I posted on. It was unfortunate because one of them made me accidentally bump a nine-year-old thread as I had thought I was posting on a new thread. When I reloaded the page, it'd put me on nine-year-old threads, the second time I caught it.

It also happens on the WiiU and ps4 browsers.

Yeah, that's happening a lot lately.

The weirdest thing is that it doesn't always direct you to the error message but sometimes takes you to entirely different forum topics or random wiki pages.

Yeah, here's another:

I'm going from my browser history:

https://www.giantbomb.com/fortnite/3030-37030/forums/anyone-playing-this-gtpsn-exchange-1812974/14

Which takes me here (which I've never ever been in):

https://www.giantbomb.com/spider-fighter/3030-2362/forums/5-stars-out-of-5-14/

The actual link on the forums works and looks pretty similar but it works:

https://www.giantbomb.com/fortnite/3030-37030/forums/anyone-playing-this-gtpsn-exchange-1812974/#15