Right now, when a forum thread is locked, it defaults to view-all mode, and eliminates the link to the "see the first message and links to the rest" view.

Is there any way to make it not do this? Usually when this happens, I still want to read the thread, but it's too much trouble to sort through all the posts to figure out which ones I haven't read. And with so many messages, it takes a long time to load even on a fast connection - I hate to think what it must be like with a slow connection.

-- Anne
(There's also the chance I'm doing something horribly wrong and this isn't a real problem. If so, let me know.)