When editing the CMS page layout called "Forum Topic Thread", I added the CMS Block "Related Articles" and saved. I then added a pair of related articles, and went to view the results on the site.
Innitially both the article Names displayed at the same time in ascending order.
Going back, I revisited the "Related Articles" CMS block to edit the Block Title and saved.
This time when I refreshed the forum, the related articles block now shows one article name at a time, and you have the selection of "Next" to view the second article name (with a screen refresh).
I cannot seam to get the articles list back to display in the original ascending format.

Lots of views on this one, but no followup...can anyone else confirm that this happens on there cart as well? thx

For some reason it seems settings in 'Forum > Related Articles' block are named wrongly:
"Records per page" works as "Number of columns"
"Number of columns" works as "Records per page"
 
So you should try using "Number of columns" setting to show more articles at the same time.
 
Regards,
ViArt Team
 
 

Ok, sounds easy enough to work around..