Viewing the forum threads

[DigitalAura]

What the heck is with this forum? For the life of me I can't figure out how you guys are reading the threads here... I visit A LOT of forums, and I've never had such difficulty.

It either displays threads in the wrong order (last post first, instead of the first post first, or it only shows half a dozen posts and the others are lost somewhere...)
I've made posts only to realize afterward that there are 2 pages of posts before mine already.

Isn't there a way to sort ALL threads / posts by ascending/descending order? I hate trying to find the first post of any given thread ... why are we working backwards here? Neither the thread mode nor hybrid mode do this.

I guess what I'm looking for is LINEAR MODE but from original post to most recent, not most recent to first post. Understand? That is the forum default for the dozen or so other forums I frequent. Seems so backwards here.