IBobi - yes, page 418 is now filling up nicely. It was a phantom but now the posts have caught up and started to fill it.
What happens is the page generator gets a few posts ahead. For example on Last Two Letters we know it is one post ahead. Suppose we are on page 500. The phantom page 501 appears when we get to post 20 and then of course the next post is the first on page 501, no longer a phantom.
To view a phantom, simply go to a known phantom thread, usually a long one, and add posts until you get to post 20 on that page.
We suspect the page counter confusion originates from a deletion, either a post deleted by a mod, or a post deleted by the person who posted it. Part of the software thinks it is there and provides pages accordingly. Another part of the software puts posts on pages and knows that one is gone.
Pease don't fix Last Two Letters, we love our phantom and nurture it
