So the thread is dead now? I'm just posting because I want to see what happens to my post.
This is the second thread to reach 5000 replies. The first thread to due so promptly broke upon that happening, so people were expecting the same thing here. But it didn't.
I don't think that thread actually broke. People just assumed it did because other people were being tricksy.
Wasn't it something to do with the off by one error in links to specific posts?
I don't think there was an actual error? Here's what led up to the topic split:
#5000 Post!!
Haha, that was post #5001, now you lose all the internets.
Looks like #5000 to me.
Now it's #4999.
I'm equally confused by what's going on over there. It seems to oscillate between 4999, 5000, and 5001. To avoid further quantum effects I'm going to split this into a new topic.
You post-deleting scum!
pacovf was correct, though I'm not sure why that post is back to #5000. Maybe theory dropped in a new post or something.
That said, there was also this, which is maybe what you're talking about:
Maybe those "quantum effects" were also related to the whole "have to scroll up a post to see new posts" thing.
But I don't think that was ever confirmed as a related issue.