ORIGINAL: LGM Graphix
They are trying to clean up the look of the forum a bit, that's why the pages are gone. I personally like having the pages there myself, however, there are 2 other options still:
1. click the 'down arrow' to the left of the thread title to take you to the newest post since your last visit
2. click the "right arrow" on the far right side of the screen to go to the very last post of the thread.
I personally find the right arrow to be next to useless ... on a widescreen display, it's so darn far away from the thread title, that I end up pressing the arrow for the wrong thread - so I gave up using it.
Gordon