Dumb question but I'm still kind of new

is there a way to always have posts come up in descending order so I can have most recent on page 1? Thanks

Yes. It's a setting in board preferences/display options in the User Control Panel.
Usually it defaults to newest on top page one.
Did you alter the board preferences?
Here's mine

will give it a try asap.

Pugsy to the recue AGAIN. Thanks, it's so much easier nof to have to select page and scroll to the bottom to see latest ressponses. THANKS again.

For anyone interested, another option is to click the little icon (example below) by the thread title -- it will automatically take you to the newest post since you last visited the thread. If there's no icon by the thread title (like you see above the circle) it means there have been no new posts since you last looked at the thread.

Thanks,Kaiasgram. That's a nice tip.

I didn't know any of this. Thank you kaiasgram and pugsy! Have reset my settings to make following posts much easier.

kaiasgram wrote:For anyone interested, another option is to click the little icon (example below) by the thread title -- it will automatically take you to the newest post since you last visited the thread. If there's no icon by the thread title (like you see above the circle) it means there have been no new posts since you last looked at the thread.

OMG... now I feel dumb

Some of this is news to me, too.