When I open a thread and click my way to page 2, 3, etc. to view someone's post, when I click the back button, it returns me to page 1, regardless of which page I was on. Can you return to the same page you were on, or is this just the way it is?

It is probably the way it is because in the coding, back is the original page that launched (page 1). When you click on page 2, 3, and so on in a thread you're not actually moving to a new page, it's just updating the first page. A easy analogy, you're reading a book and your on page 1 and want to flip to the middle of the book and you change the page to page 84. You don't actually flip through 83 other pages to get there, page 1 just gets written with page 84 words in it.

Make sense? If you don't, no biggie, it's a computer thing it is what it is, that's just how it works.