Forum quirks

[Rammyboy]

Greetings to you all, I recently joined up here to further my knowledge of classic boats, which I love.
I am having a couple of issues with the forums functions and I hope someone can help me out. Firstly, when I open a thread, the posts appear in reverse order. It's a pain if the thread is say 8 pages long as post#1 will appear as the last post on page 8 and I have to scroll up the page to read the subsequent posts. Bizzare! The other thing is the search facility, when I click on it the box to type the request into , the box just disappears before I can type.
Hate to introduce myself as a whinger but these matters are driving me nuts!