Please not that you can have the board show you the topics in chronological order, just as the thread view did. Just go to the top of the message board and click start date. You will notice it is site to latest reply as a default. You can choose to change it so you can always see the latest topic and not the latest response.
You can also sort topics by most viewed, most replies, etc....
You can also sort topics by most viewed, most replies, etc....