# Page 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 27, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-2/84161 "2001-09-27T18:35:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-2/84161/1 "2001-09-27T18:35:30Z")
A question for the admins: I am wondering how the software decides to break a thread into a new page. Sometimes I post and my remarks appear at the top of a new page. This sometimes leads to a loss of context and inevitable confusion or even flaming. There doesn’t seem to be any way to predict when the page will break, I’d avoid posting “across the break” if I could but I don’t see the logic to the breaks. Is it done by total post count in the thread, or some other means? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-2/84161/2 "2001-09-27T18:53:05Z")
There are 50 posts to a page. The first page will contain the OP and 49 replies. If you don’t want to be the first post on a new page, just count the total posts. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-2/84161/3 "2001-09-27T22:55:15Z")
dammit, why’d you have to make it so complicated? ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/page-2/84161/4 "2001-09-27T23:50:24Z")
I guess I should have counted. But it’s a _little_ more complicated than that, if it’s an active thread, there could be a simulpost at 48, kicking you onto the next page anyway. Oh well…