I don't know if this is possible with the forum software, but I think it would be more intuitive if when clicking on the most recent post (to the right of each subforum), it would take you to that most recent post, rather than the first page of the thread. It's especially annoying with ongoing multi-page threads where I've already read most of the thread except for the new posts. Is it possible for this be changed?

If you are in 'Active Topics' (next to search) and you press the yellow sun icon (indicating an unread thread)
It will take you to the last post.

just make sure every thread url ends with "&find=unread" and you should be good