Originally Posted by
Counsellor
According to the URL, that thread is the 1,082,519th thread.
I tried to find the one-millionth by editing the URL, but it seems you must know the forum in which the thread appears or the edited URL won't operate.
Yeah, I think that is due to the merging and deletion of threads. The official million thread mark was only crossed a few days ago. That would mean over 80,000 new threads have been created in a few days if you went by the URL.
The way I figured out that thread was by subtracting the current number of posts according to the front page counter (1,000,004 at the time I did it) from the newest thread # immediately after the million thread mark was crossed. This gave the number of merged/deleted threads or whatever that skews the thread numbers. I then added that number to 1,000,000 to find the the post number of the thread that actually caused the counter on the front page to go to 1,000,000.