I've noticed over the last week (and it was confirmed by another user) that any pings I do from my CW Release thread (on the first post), the pings take people not to the first post but instead the third page. Is it because its a VERY OLD thread (first post started back in 2012) or is there something else going on? It didn't used to do this and only recently started doing it.

I'm sure it is, but since I'm going to close my CW slotting thread in favor of opening a new one I haven't posted anything new to it so I can't confirm it is. Its been doing this for a while now.