Whalebird does not save your place in the home timeline if you click the Notifications tab

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Let's say you are trying to catch up on your timeline and you are reading messages from 12 hours ago. A notification comes in, so you click on the Notifications tab to read it. Then you click back on the Home button, and now you are looking at the newest post and have to scroll all the way back down to try to find where you were.

This is just an example, maybe I clicked on the Settings, maybe I clicked on Hashtags, maybe I clicked on something else entirely. But when I come back to my home timeline, I want it to have remembered my place and not throw me to the most recent message. Even if I quit the program entirely, the next time I open it I would REALLY like it if it would show me the last message I read. There is no circumstance I can think of that I would want to be abruptly taken to the most recent message.

To me this would be like an email program marking all your unread emails as read just because you went to look at a different email account, or closed the email program. I just don't understand why Mastodon software has this tendency to abruptly take people to the most recent message. Maybe some people like that, but personally I loathe that behavior. So maybe you could make it a preference, something like "Always save my place in the timeline" or "Don't jump to newest message after absence" or something like that, But I would be SO happy if you could make it save your place in the timeline, no matter what!