This mess is all my fault.

You see, I complained once too often about the broken page numbers when viewing a long thread. I raised it last year (nothing happened), a few more times this year (was essentially told to stop whining because a workaround existed) and then I complained again in that survey a while back. One question asked for suggestions to improve the site - I said there's no point if suggestions are clearly ignored, and I explained the page number issue yet again.

And now this! The page numbers appear to be fixed, which is pretty amazing really, but there seems to have been ... a bit of collateral damage.

When Shane says "Be patient, they are working on it" you probably shouldn't hold your breath, the page number repair took about 13 months!

Hey, here's a thought: Maybe the Rendo website designer is secretly on the payroll of another large content site, they are paying him under the table to bungle these 'improvements'.