If you’re joining in a long thread, and want to reply to someone and then go back to where you were, click on the up arrow, to go back to the post you reacted to
Also, if someone says something really interesting that you want to reply to but feel like it’s going a bit off topic, quote their reply and start a new thread if you feel like it could make for a far better conversation rather than a sub-thread.
The default when you create a poll is for it to be anonymous but it’s normally better to know who voted for what, so tick “Show who voted” in the poll builder or add “public=true” to the poll header.
They changed the interface a few years ago and either didn’t care that it made it more fiddly or we were the only forum using it enough and no one else noticed and made a fuss.
“Single Choice” and “Multiple Choice” refers to whether you’re allowed to vote for more than one option, not whether there is more than one option to vote for.
When searching, the first results will be one result per thread that contains the search term. If you want want to see every time it appeared in one of those threads you need to go into the thread and search just that thread.