All suggestions are passed on to the writers of the software but please remember that some of your suggestions are not possible, at least for now and possibly never will be.
The request for the last page in a multi page thread to open first will probably never happen. I have the option of having long threads broken down into multiple pages. At the moment I have the option set at every 25 replies a new page is generated. I could turn that option off and instead you would get one long page that might take a lot longer to open but you wouldn't have to click on other pages to get to the page with the newest replies on them. You might have to wait a loooong time for the page to load and then have to scroll allllll the wayyyy down though.
There are only a few threads that are more than a few pages long and it only takes the time to load the first page instead of waiting for all the pages to load. If you have a slow connection then there is nothing I can do for you. I have set the number of replies to 25 before a page is split into further pages as in my experience of running this bulletin board it is the best compromise between a large file loading and too many pages being generated.
I don't know what browser you are using but usually when a multi page thread starts to load the header of the page loads first, the bit with the This topic is 2 pages long: 1 2, and all you have to do is either click on the 'stop' button on your browser and then click on the page number you want to go diectly to.
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Capt PPRuNe
aka Danny Fyne
The Professional Pilots RUmour NEtwork