OK, in the non-spork template I'm having problems reading posts. I get to the bottom and see the place to put your response/entry and intuitively ignore the page [1] [2] [3] to continue on reading the thread. Can I suggest something radical for the new forum template? Reverse order the posts. Newest first. You read backwards. It's done elsewhere and works well. Opinions?

That would likely affect more than just the template, and may not even be possible in Phorum. I don't recall seeing any settings like it.

What if I just made the pagination more obvious?

It also flies directly in the face of what made WebX great. Clicking on Read Subs you'd get post by post, thread by thread all the messages that were written since you left them.