Implement Preview Thread Feature
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Implement Preview Thread Feature
I use the vBulletin software on other message boards systems that I frequent, and notice that they all seem to have implemented the feature that allows the user to hover over the thread title and it displays a quick preview of the first 5 or 6 lines of that thread.
This allows me to quickly go through the threads and determine which ones I want to read and which ones I don't. Since the thread titles don't always provide a clue as to the message contents this is really a timesaver!
Any chance of that being implemented here?
This allows me to quickly go through the threads and determine which ones I want to read and which ones I don't. Since the thread titles don't always provide a clue as to the message contents this is really a timesaver!
Any chance of that being implemented here?
Last edited by xinerevelle; Sep 20, 2006 at 8:06 am
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We had that feature a while back. It was stopped because that feature was slowing things down. I do look forward to the day it returns.
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That's funny, because on the other boards I frequent, the mods say that long threads cause everything to slow down, so they usually cap them at 200 or so... but they keep the hover/preview feature. Here, there are threads that are thousands of messages long, but no preview. Go figure!

