Occasionally I'll be looking at a topic that has 2 or more pages worth of replies, and when I get to the last page, there's the page indicators but not postings..obviously postings would be in reply to a topic, but I find it interesting (and a bit annoying) to see a topic with 1 page of entries, showing as 2 pages. I'm not going to give a link to the most recent example of this, as by the time someone actually goes to look, there might be one or more entries on that second page.

In your Display Preferences panel, you can set the maximum number of posts to be shown per page. If you increase it to something like 60, you'll avoid the pages annoyance altogether.

I use 99 and it works fine