Wasn't sure where to put this, so dropping this topic here.

In other forums, I like to use the Active Topics link to look at recent / popular topics and then jump to the next unread post.

But it doesn't appear that's possible on this forum - when directly viewing a forum you can click on the icon next to a topic to jump to the first unread post, but this doesn't work on the active topics link.

Can this be fixed?

I'm looking into the same question.
I find it very annoying that I'm unable to jump to the first unread post straight away.
By the way, the same applies when listing "Your posts" and is not limited to the "Active Topics" listing.

+1.

I suffer by this too. But not so often because I mostly use tapatalk where it works correctly instead of the Web interface.

Looks like it's a problem with the theme.

I've switched to the "SE Square" theme from "Canvas" and now there's an icon that allows you to jump to the first unread post.