Forum threads: Automatic creation of new pages?

I remember that happening on the old forum as well. But I am not really sure it does anyone any favors. I wouldn't mind seeing this go away. If nothing else, upping the threshold for when this happens might make sense.

Same on the old site indeed, I think it was at the 50th reply when a new page got introduced and it was a pain to get there, it didn't play well with the 'new posts' link we had at the time (and I'd really like to have back!).
See e.g. https://musescore.org/en/node/98546

I agree comments on a single page would be better. Problems with large pages and increased server load could be overcome by implementing any of these strategies:

1. Lazy loading (comments are not loaded until you scroll down to them)
2. A "show more" button to load additional comments
3. A "show replies" button to load replies past a certain depth (e.g. replies to comments are visible, but replies to replies are hidden by default)
4. Comment tabs (all comments are on one "page" but you click a tab/button to show later comments)