# "Last Page" vs "Last Post"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-page-vs-last-post/144184>\
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**Created:** [December 21, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-page-vs-last-post/144184 "2002-12-21T05:12:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-page-vs-last-post/144184/1 "2002-12-21T05:12:01Z")

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When a thread goes over 5 pages, as the NY DopeFest thread is today, there is a link that says “Last Page”, but the code is for “Last Post”, which is, as indicated, the last post on the last page. This seems to me to be a recent change. What gives?

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**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-page-vs-last-post/144184/2 "2002-12-21T08:17:07Z")

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Depending on your definition of recent, I’ve noticed this, and was a bit curious about it, as well. I’ve been reading the boards for about a year now, and I can’t recall when this _wasn’t_ the case.

Not that this isn’t a change, mind, but I don’t remember it ever working any other way.

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**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-page-vs-last-post/144184/3 "2002-12-21T08:28:25Z")

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It just smacked me in the face…  
It **is** guaranteed to get you to the last page, without extraneous coding.

Also, aren’t “thread pages” determined by the user’s browser rather than the server, depending on the posts per page setting, and suchlike?

[sub]Which would make coding out a link to the top of the last page a royal pain, I’d think.[/sub]

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-page-vs-last-post/144184/4 "2002-12-21T08:38:07Z")

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> \*Originally posted by UncleBill \*  
> This seems to me to be a recent change.

Either you’re mistaken and it isn’t a recent change, or else you’re not mistaken and it is a recent change. If it is a recent change, it would have happened the last time the board software was upgraded, which was a few weeks ago.

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**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-page-vs-last-post/144184/5 "2002-12-21T22:39:13Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \*  
> \*\*Either you’re mistaken and it isn’t a recent change, or else you’re not mistaken and it is a recent change. \*\*

Thanks, that clears everything up!