Since the number of posts per thread can now be customized (as there is no longer a definitve standard number of posts per thread for everybody viewing the threads, as in the old software that powered FlyerTalk), notice that each post is now numbered. The number counts the total posts in a thread up until and including that post, not the number of replies in a thread. The post number can be found in the upper-right corner of the post. If desired, one can click on that post number to view only that post in a new window in the browser.

A useful advantage to numbered posts is to either pinpoint the location of a problem on FlyerTalk to someone on the information technology staff at WebFlyer, or to pinpoint a post with specific information to a fellow FlyerTalk member. Perhaps this feature could also be used to alert a FlyerTalk member who posted information that had already been previously posted earlier in a specific thread by another FlyerTalk member.

In the old software that powered FlyerTalk, one had to count the posts and designate which page of the thread that post was on (if there were multiple pages in that thread) in order to pinpoint the location of a specific post, which was quite time-consuming.

The numbering of individual posts is another potential time-saving feature.