Look above and to your left, there is a little downward pointing arrow and it says "View First Unread". If you click on it, it will take you to the first post that you haven't read in that thread.
Is that the kind of 'leap to' you were looking for? When I click on 'Suggestions & Ideas' I'm, taken to the 'S&I' section where I see all the threads in the folder. Is it not doing this for you?
S/He's saying that he reads threads on the first page of a forum, and then tried to read threads on the second or third page, but after finishing a thread, s/he's taken back to the first page of the forum.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
OP, a better place for this would be the official forum feedback thread.
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Ah, got it FW. Lack of sleep has slowed the synapse. 
Say I've looked over the threads on the first page and moved on to the threads on the second page (yes, sometimes good threads still go down the line). I'm going to skip over the part where the stickies are repeated on every page for now.
Now say I go in to read one of the threads on the third page. I finish reading what I want, and go to the top of the page to click back to "Suggestions and Ideas" (or whatever forum I'm reading). Instead of returning to the third page of threads, I'm back again on the first page. I know it's not hard to re-click on the little "3", but why? I know for a fact that vBulletin is PHP based and the code to remember what page you're on is not difficult (I haven't dealt with a ton of PHP based packages, but after two or three CMSs, a couple Forums and a couple Blogs, you pick up a few things). It would wind up being a couple lines of code in each of a couple files. That is assuming it isn't already a setting in admin. Can we please have someone check into that?
Thanks for your time.
Robin
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