Nope.
Just to make sure, did everyone notice and try out the “post slider” (for lack of a better term) on a long thread?
I’m not just saying this as a new admin of a Discourse forum, but paged threads were really my least favorite aspect of the old forum or any other forum platform for that matter. The one in the screenshot above would have been 95 pages long, and to find anything specific you would still have to search within the thread (which this forum can do as well). If you actually wanted to read it chronologically from a certain point you would read 30 posts, reach the bottom, next > read 30 more, next > etc… And to actually find anything specific by just clicking back and forth you would have to jump multiples of 30 posts back and forth in time. Add to that the fact that the progression of most big threads is highly variable, with spurts of many posts close together, then a lull, then another surge; so knowing how many pages to skip to reach a point in time is totally unpredictable. With this new “post slider” bar you just slide it until you get to the date range you’re interested in, release it, and then start scrolling down, and it will infinitely scroll as far as you want to keep reading.
There was also a significant problem with thread continuity where the last post in a page tended to get ignored/buried (multiples of 30 in our case) when the next post appeared at the top of the next page. This was such a common phenomenon that other more advanced traditional forum platforms put a notice on the top of the next page to the effect of “JoeShmoe posted this in the previous post: Post summary…”.