# pagination in vB

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pagination-in-vb/69951>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 24, 2001, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pagination-in-vb/69951 "2001-06-24T06:37:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pagination-in-vb/69951/1 "2001-06-24T06:37:46Z")

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How does the board software decide to paginate the threads? Does it do so based on the number of posts?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pagination-in-vb/69951/2 "2001-06-24T10:57:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \*  
> How does the board software decide to paginate the threads? Does it do so based on the number of posts?

From what I can tell, it’s 50 posts per page. If you notice, threads never go to 2 pages until they have 50 replies, which makes 50 posts (1 OP and 49 replies) on page 1 and 1 post over on page 2.

Hope this helps.

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2001, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pagination-in-vb/69951/3 "2001-06-24T15:02:15Z")

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Yes, it is based on number of posts. It is a setting you can select on the Admin screens. I choose the default of 20 for my place, to save on bandwidth.