A few specific "How to" in the new forum

After reading Greg's recent post, I still  have a few questions on how to do things I did frequently in the old forum:

  1. when I logged into the forum I want to immediately review "content" - i.e. discussions but SW forum always default at the home page. I would like it to default in content - like I was able to do in the old forum (I think it was called "my places") ?
  2. if I want to start a discussion while in the Content section of the forum, there is no button that I can find to initiate a discussion. You must go back to the Home page to do this?
  3. This is a general question - For many of us that have been here for a while, we like to read the forum every day and we review discussions, and reply to other's specific threads after reading them. The question is what is a successful method for continuing to read content after you've replied to a  specific thread (and still in it?  Is it the browser's back button (I use chrome)  or is it some other method that the Forum as built into it. While in a specific thread, I do notice at the top there is path showing the thread's category. Do we click on this?  To summarize, what I'm asking here is what is a good and proper workflow for reading thru content, replying and then continuing to read where you left off?

Thanks

Mark

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