Statusicon links to first post

[broncoshq]

The team on my site are working on some changes to our theme, one of those has been removing the First Unread / Last post buttons, and we have changed the threadtitle to link directly to the first unread post.

That bit works.

However, there are a few people who hate it, and want to be able to get to the first post. So I'd like to link the statusicon to the first post. Is this possible?

<a class="threadstatus" rel="vB::AJAX" <vb:if condition="$show['threadcount']">title="{vb:rawphrase have_x_posts_in_thread_last_y, {vb:raw thread.dot_count}, {vb:raw thread.dot_lastpost}}"</vb:if>></a>

Would really appreciate if anyone can help with this.

Everything I've done so far just breaks the AJAX for locking the thread, which we would prefer to keep if possible.