One of the Garage forums I frequent has a very cool feature for multipage threads.
General Garage Discussion - The Garage Journal Board
It shows page 1-2-etc. to allow you to go straight to the page you want to BUT it also has a VIEW ALL feature so that you can view all the posts at one time and not have to load each page individually which plays makes it much more difficult to use your back button to get to the forum again.
This a is particularly welcome when you have to dial up to connect or when connections are slow.