How did you do that? it used to show the first 10, then a gap, then the last one, like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 32
So you'd have had to go to the last page then from there go back one, which you can still do now.
True. To clarify, I was speaking of threads with fewer than 10 pages. Once they exceeded that amount, I usually lost interest. For the rare thread that exceeded 10 pages and which I was still interested in following, I would have done as you described. If the page links were to include the last few pages rather than just the last one, that would've suited me even better, but as you said, we never had that.
This isn't like a deal breaker or anything for me, just bemoaning the loss of a small convenience.
Musing, if this were made a profile option with a default off setting, I wonder how many people would activate it? Enough to make a noticeable impact on speed? My instinct says no.