Seems it keeps bringing me to the top of threads I've been following. I know probably a setting I screwed up and 10 years ago I wonldn'ta gave it a thought, but..
You have to click the little "new posts" icon immediealty to the left of the thread name. If you just click the thread name, it takes you to the first post.
Thats ok. Different forum software takes a bit of getting used to. The good news is that 90% of the forums out there run this sofware so once you are used to this it applies almost everywhere.