Discussion board subject links to replies

We have discussion boards on Sharepoint 2013. When you use Management view (or any other custom view) all subject columns are not linking to items themselves, but list of replies instead (if there no replies, it's not showing anything).
Why is this and how could I fix it? I would like to see the item itself when clicking the subject.

Hi Kati,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to make the subject to link to the item itself in Management view in Discussion Board list.
The Management view is the view for Admins to see the Reply statistics for this discussion.
If we click a subject in this view, it will go to the management view of the subject; And if we click a reply, it will go to the reply item view page.
As we need to get all the replies for the discussion in the Management view, so it is by design that if we click a subject in the Management view, then it will go to the Management view of this discussion.
So if you want to view the subject in Management view, then I recommend to click the View Item button in the ribbon to view the subject.
Best regards.
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