The forum layout is.... poopies.

But, I can look on the bright side of things. Now, after I create a post, a nice little lime-green whatsits box appears at the top of forum header to let me know that my post, which I am now viewing as being in the thread, has "successfully been posted."

Yes, thank you oh mighty and mysterious forum for confirming that my post was posted after I posted it...Maybe the forum software is glad that I was successful?

Navigating this place is ridiculous and the presentation is awful. There is absolutely no reason, that I can fathom, why Renderosity can't just go grab a ready-made bit of forum software and tack it onto their site. At worst, they could hire a service. Internal development for the forums is the cause of the problem, not the solution. For good online solutions like "forums" you need engineers, not artists.