@stormi said in Help me, this forum software is horribly confusing:

Also, I believe that the second time you open a thread, it will send you to the first unread message. Hence why it sends you to the first message for threads you have never read.

It doesn't

@Affonso 20 years of working perfectly in a way that makes sense. Unlike this. I'm talking ergonomics, if that word can be used to describe the usability of a forum.
I just don't understand the point of making something that's more difficult to use. Perhaps it's made so simple compared to say, phpBB and its relatives, that the usability actually went down. In my eyes at least.

I guess it's not modern to be able to access all the subscribed and followed discussions, and the modern internet people only care about being notified of quotes or something.
Modern people apparently also always check ALL new posts in the entire forum instead of clicking on "subscribed threads" link every normal forum has.

Btw yes, this is, I think, the second forum ever to use this weird software. The first one I simply closed and never visited again because I didn't really needed to post there unlike here (not to rant, obviously, but since I'm trying to move away from Vmware, I guess I'll need some help from time to time).

@DustinB That's just notifications about new replies, quotes or whatever. Not really what I'm looking for.
I guesss this forum software is just... weird. Very weird. It's lacking some of the extremely basic functionality that I took for granted for way over a decade.

Oh and also, where is the list of subscribed or watched threads? Or is that not a thing in this forum software either?

@DustinB That's useless when there are tens of threads with new replies. I only come here once in a while (for now at least). I would have to go through a long list of threads I am not interested in, looking for the one I wanted to open.
Are you telling me the forum is unable to open a thread on the first unread post when you simply open it from the category it's in?

@DustinB I was asking how to open a THREAD on the first unread post.
When I click on any that I previously opened, but one that is marked as having new replies, it opens on the first one.

@DustinB Great, first troll. Why do I even bother?

I am used to the usual phpBB and similar forums, and this here confuses the hell out of me.
Can anyone tell me how do I open a thread on the first unread message for starters?