Newbee question on "older posts"

[Aleph]

I was very excited when I found these forums and started to read eagerly. However, in a lot of threads, the first one I can read is not the first post of the thread. E.g. I look at the thread and -despite being on page 1- the first post I see might be numbered #5 or even #12. This is a bit of a pitty, as one can't get the context of the thread.

Am I doing something wrong or is there an option to go to the beginning of the thread I missed? If not, is there a thread archive somewhere?

Thanks in advance for answering

[devadmin]

Welcome Aleph.

Shortly after the site was first launched some posts were moved because they were posted in the wrong forum, particularly as many people moved from a simple mail list and were not accustomed to the multi-forum layout. In one or two cases new threads were created by moving posts on the same topic from one or more other threads. However this should only affect a handful of threads.

Could you please specify the threads in which you are seeing this problem and I will look into it.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Aleph]

Thanks Kevin!
This is 4 of them...
http://www.bristolcars.info/forums/showthread.php?t=160
http://www.bristolcars.info/forums/showthread.php?t=174
http://www.bristolcars.info/forums/showthread.php?t=144
edit:
http://www.bristolcars.info/forums/showthread.php?t=129
Kind regards,
Bas

[Kevin H]

Bas, I can't see anything wrong with these threads. I have tried logging in as myself and as a test user (a default registered member) and the threads all appear in reverse chronological order (newest first), which is the site default.

What browser type and version are you using?

[Kevin H]

Just thought of something!

Bas, what do you have "Display Modes" set to? (see attached screen shot)

It should be on "Linear Mode"

Regards,
Kevin