That is a very very old way, i knew that when i was in the womb, and no its not just up by 10 or 20, you can go up by 1's the only topics that dont show are those that are deleted or in the admin board or one of the little hq's that see less action than a ugly rock. all in all this is the basics of it
ok so as you know 2+2 equals 4

well each topic has a certain "Code" if you will, when you post a new topic the code goes up by one, from the last code. if the whole site was 1 url, you couldnt get past the first page doh
so you say "travis thats amazing, 2+2 actually equals 4" i go yes it does
if it works with posts lets see here what else do we know here that works with code, forums, doh. showforum=1
everywhere you go will have this
http://the-bell-tree-forums.com/index.php?
its what you have at the end of that
for example
showtopic=
showforum=1
c=
now you say travis how do you know this
i say, i know this because i actually graduated 1st grade
now its what you add to it
now lets start from the bottom up
if we do c=8 we will get the admin board which you cant see because your not a admin boo frikkidy whoo
lets go on to forums
5 is the tbt tower, 29 is another admin board
topic is more complicated to find topics, you have thousands of topics to go through
this is a very very very old theory that you could have come up with in 3rd grade, i rate this topic a zero out of five