Holy crap, we crossed 1000 pages.
I predict that we'll soon see a drop back down to around 300 pages, then a slow but steady recovery.
Possibly
Mr. Karpeles someone will
craft software to store this thread securely offline and then forget how to retrieve it at which point it will drop into negative numbers of messages and emit a huge sucking sound while at the same emitting faint cries of "foul".