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Thread Preview on Mouseover

55 votes

Submitted by Galen, 20th February 2007, 1:42:07 AM

I'd like to see some way to mouseover a thread and get a snippet of the first post as the title attribute. I know "Click and hold to edit" claims the spot as the title attribute for thread titles right now, but honestly that could be replaced by a small button next to the thread title or something. Or, you could just mouseover the post icon for the preview. I know it's available as a plugin now, but I'd REALLY like to see this as a core feature.

8 Comments

  1. This can add greatly to the load of a page. If this feature is considered it should be optional. I do believe this can also be done with a plugin. Not a terrible idea imho but one that I feel should be only an option for admins.

    labrocca, 20th February 2007, 10:35:32 AM

  2. I'd always have it turned off. IMO it should stay a plugin.

    FirefoxWiz, 20th February 2007, 1:30:52 PM

  3. Could be useful.But one can try SNAP Preview.

    tristam, 21st February 2007, 1:08:29 PM

  4. Please keep it as a plugin - that way I can keep the behavior I added to my own forum (hovering over the title displays the date / time when the thread was started).

    laie_techie, 24th February 2007, 7:34:03 AM

  5. this should stay a plugin. that way people can decide whether to have it or not.

    tyros8000, 24th February 2007, 10:23:04 AM

  6. I find it useful as I can then decide whether a thread is woth viewing or not from the small preview on some of the forums I go to, so I have it on my forum as a Plugin. Therefore, in my opinion it would then be useful to have it as a default feature, as long as you have a way to either change the length or to disable it.

    *voted*

    DARRKCLOUD, 27th February 2007, 10:09:25 AM

  7. i really like this idea. Its one of the things I miss about vBulletin.

    Saurav, 9th April 2007, 8:21:35 PM

  8. More suggestions were posted here:
    http://ideas.mybboard.net/idea/thread-preview

    DennisTT, 15th March 2008, 10:06:51 PM

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