feeling lost in the forums / reading difficulty

[Orion Pobursky]

The link to that list is right up top on every page: "View Unread Posts"

Indeed it is -- but you have to be in a forum page before you can use it, which kinda defeats the object.

I confused by what you mean here. The link is part of the forum header. It appears on every forum page site wide. There should be any part of the forums that doesn't display the header.