Topic and post permalinks have a 'This topic was started on <Board name>' line; opic history has an 'Appears on "<Board name>" board' line. These link back to the board the topic appears on. But they don't ensure the topic is visible, and it won't be if the user loaded more topics.
The fix is to include the topic in the link to encourage the board to paginate to the right topic. Using Flow with JavaScript disabled suggests there's already a parameter for this, topic_list[offset-id], e.g.:
http://ee-flow.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Flow_bugs&topic_list[offset-id]=050adf7af4bff00fc8b1fa163e68c4ac
This works with and without JavaScript enabled. It means a _More recent topics_ link appears at the top, which could use some improved styling ( https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/497 ).
There's a separate enhancement which is to record interactions (such as clicking permalink and history links, and even the current scroll position and pagination) in the URL fragment, so that if you click to one of these detail pages from a Flow board and then click the back button, the browser returns to the state of the Flow board.
Version: master
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62032