Ummm... guess what, guys?

It turns out that there was an error in the forum's official total post count. The discrepancy between the message number and the official post count was a hint that this was the case. This was possibly due to some kind of artifact that came from our great migration from TapaTalk to our new home. I have reran the statistics in the admin section and we now have the corrected post count... at 477233.
So on the downside we have not yet met the half a million milestone, but on the good side I am sure that we will reach it in due time.

I have no idea how to end this post so I will simply say what Ducky would probably say: Oops eeps! The forum stats made a mistake!
