You know that number up there, roight?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Tthe one in the top box? (technical)

That's different each time?

Is that how many threads have ever been started?

And does it include dead Chat threads and deleted threads?

[curious smiley]

5 unanswered questions up there.

Someone must know.

You're hallucinating again, aren't you?

Hmmm, deleted threads eh?

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

The one in the URL yes?

That is an interesting question :)

Gastontheladybird knows about this kind of thing.

So this thread ends with 276 yes?

Interesting.

I just tried it with a 1 instead (ie just a 1) and it came up with thread deleted. So not sure whether deleted threads would still be there.

What be this URL, SkiiG?

This thread is
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/1410276

So to guess a thread you'd have to correctly guess the topic as well as the number

Oooh, you've got the clevers QED.

Shall we pick numbers?

URL is the address of a website

Like www.mumsnet.com

or www.deadoraliveinfo.com

If you change the end number to 5, you get an unanswered thread in the History topic. Who knew there was a History topic?

Thanks Trills.

Are you happy with my thread placemnet?

Ah, so you DON'T need to chose the topic. The topic auto-populates if you get the number right.

But if you just change the number, not the earlier part of the URL, then it jumps you to a different section of the site.

I've had a play around and it does seem that these are consecutive thread numbers, irrespective of what section they are in.

No, you can just put a number in and it finds the topic it was in. I just did a number after talk/ and it came up with a new topic. ie

www.mumsnet/com/talk/site_stuff/1410200 and it found the "right" topic.

oooh this is good.
I just changed the number to 1410275, deleted the thread title, hit return and it took me to www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/a1410275-Might-need-to-live-near-Abington-Cambridge-where-to-live. So the topic isn't linked to the number, and is sequential according to date/time the thread was started.

So we could try and find the deleted thread, whichever one it is. When roughly did it start?

This was thread number 1,000,000

Sorry, and thanks Trills

So we can play random number thread finding, but can't get to deleted ones. Poo

1410000 was started at 15:57 today

Thread 10,000 has still never been answered.

Random thread at number 10 with Justine Zombie ing at the end of it

But that was started in 2001 - when did Mumsnet start? Did the very early posts get lost somehow?