Well, one thing to note is that the first site, AccesstoInsight.org, shouldnāt really be called Venerable Thanissaroās old site. Itās true that the majority of the translations are his, but the site itself was not. It was done by a very meritorious man named John Bullitt. After long years of hard work, he stopped updating the site.
So to accommodate new translations and corrections, Venerable Thanissaro put his translations on his own website, dhammatalks.org (whose name makes more sense when you know that it originally was just for his Dhammatalks.)
After some digging and chance discovery, I found this page:
https://accesstoinsight.org/abbrev.html
Where he (John Bullitt) says that for the AN:
Depending on how the suttas are tallied, it contains either 9,557; 8,777; 2,344; or 2,308 suttas.[4] The Anguttara Nikaya is divided into 11 nipatas (books), each of which is further divided into vaggas containing 10 or more suttas. References are to nipata and sutta number, using BGS as a guide to numbering. Example: AN 3.65 is sutta 65 in the book of the Threes.
And the BGS?
The Book of the Gradual Sayings, F.L. Woodward and E.M. Hare, trans. (Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1994). An English translation of the Anguttara Nikaya.
That is the old PTS translation. Ajhan Thanissaro translates from the Thai Tipitaka and the numbering is clearly different from BGS. Others would know better, but even the Thai Tipitaka probably does not use a sequential numbering system, but it would show what is considered to be a single sutta. So Iām guessing that Ajahn Thanissaro simply numbered sequentially as they are divided in that version.
And SuttaCentral uses neither the Thai system nor BGS system. Fun, eh? And to add insult to injury, this is one of those cases where apparently the Thai edition calls it one thing (Brahmavihara sutta) and others call it something completely different (KarajakÄya Sutta). But to add even more insult, the Dictionary of Pali Proper Names only gives KarajakÄya as the name of a section in the book of the tens. And the citation there? Yeah, itās to the PTS volume and page number system, A.v.283-303.
See why I advocate for some help articles?