Now instead of listing 32 pages beside certain long threads, it now only prints "(1 ... 32)" thereby making everything much less disgusting looking. It still looks disgusting inside of the thread, but that's life.

This is cool.

How long does a thread have to get before this kicks in?

What about listing the two most recent pages, i.e. (1 ... 31 32)? That way you can start with the second-to-last if the new page has just been started and there are still posts on the previous one that you haven't seen. Am I making sense?

After five pages it shortens it, I believe. Though I didn't really get a chance to play with it much before I got distracted.

And I was originally going to have it go: ( 1 ... 32 34 ) but that was slightly more complicated and I opted for simplicity for the time being.

yeah, whiner--there's still the <<<< button (: