If this is your first time in the ThirdAge Discussions, you may want to take the Discussions Tour . Then start with the Introduce Yourself discussion, where you can read posts from others who are new to ThirdAge Discussions and post your own introduction.
Discussions have threads, which are composed of an initial post and all replies to it.
When you first enter an individual discussion, the first post you see will usually be the most recent. The Outline lists all of the posts in that forum discussion. Here you can get an overview of the discussion, as well as click directly on specific posts that interest you to open them. Your location always appears at the top of the page, and you can navigate quickly by clicking on any part of that listing. Your screen can only show a limited number of the total posts in a discussion.