# Different numbers of threads in different forums.

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**Created:** [May 28, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-numbers-of-threads-in-different-forums/358521 "2006-05-28T05:57:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![backspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@backspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backspace)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-numbers-of-threads-in-different-forums/358521/1 "2006-05-28T05:57:27Z")

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I’m just curious why there are different numbers of threads on the first pages of the forums, for instance, the pit has 20 threads, while mpsims has 50. How come?

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-numbers-of-threads-in-different-forums/358521/2 "2006-05-28T12:06:50Z")

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The page default is to show 50 threads at a time for the last day. If there have been fewer than 50 threads with activity in the last 24 hours, the forum page will show fewer than 50. If there have been more than 50 active threads, the forum page will display the first 50 on the first page, the next 50 on the second page, etc., for as many pages as it takes to show the threads that have been active.

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**Author:** ![backspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@backspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backspace)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-numbers-of-threads-in-different-forums/358521/3 "2006-05-28T17:54:12Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> The page default is to show 50 threads at a time for the last day. If there have been fewer than 50 threads with activity in the last 24 hours, the forum page will show fewer than 50. If there have been more than 50 active threads, the forum page will display the first 50 on the first page, the next 50 on the second page, etc., for as many pages as it takes to show the threads that have been active.

Thank you very much 🙂

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/different-numbers-of-threads-in-different-forums/358521/4 "2006-05-29T14:04:57Z")

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What twickster said, thanks!