Forum Suggestion

[TheNinja]

Hey, just a suggestion. On many other forums, when you drag the mouse over a topic title, it displays approximately the first 3-4 lines of the actual post. That way you can sort of read where the post is going without having to click on it and go into the thread. Just thought that would be a nice feature if it's easily available.

 

[junkerman123]

Just thought that would be a nice feature if it's easily available.

The same could be said about search, could it not? 🙂

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: junkerman123

Just thought that would be a nice feature if it's easily available.

The same could be said about search, could it not? 🙂

lmfao :laugh:

Yeah i'd concentrate on getting the search fixed first myself.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

I believe that is a feature of vbulletin boards. I do like it though.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Wouldn't be a hard thing for them to do.

<?php
$alttext = $array['post'];
$alttext = substr($alttext, 1, 200);
echo "<a href=\"$threadlink\" alt=\"$alttext\">$threadlink</a>";
?>

But I doubt it's worth their time right now.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I always wondered if there was a way to modify the way banning a member works.
For example, if a mis-directed post in Off-Topic results in a ban, should the member be banned from all the forums (like it is now) or JUST from Off-Topic?
Some people might be a little silly in the non-technical forums occasionally...but they do contribute well to the Video/CPU/Motherboard discussions...just a thought.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
Hey, just a suggestion. On many other forums, when you drag the mouse over a topic title, it displays approximately the first 3-4 lines of the actual post. That way you can sort of read where the post is going without having to click on it and go into the thread. Just thought that would be a nice feature if it's easily available.

i've brought up the possibility of this hover/read feature in the past also. it's great for realizing before you have to open the thread that it's not a thread you want to open in the first place.

we haven't had any feature updates here in a long time. it would be nice. 🙂

 

[SVT Cobra]

I use this feature all the time on Bodybuilding.com. Works great! 🙂

 

[TheNinja]

I think everyone wants to see this feature happen 🙂

 

[KeithTalent]

I wish there was a way to forward your PMs to e-mail, that would be really useful to me.

 

[Ika]

This feature would be oh-so-useful in ATOT, where stupid threads are the norm. Head-Fi uses this feature and it's nice to see if the thread's above my head or not.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wouldn't be a hard thing for them to do.

<?php
$alttext = $array['post'];
$alttext = substr($alttext, 1, 200);
echo "<a href=\"$threadlink\" alt=\"$alttext\">$threadlink</a>";
?>

But I doubt it's worth their time right now.

This is a .NET board, not PHP. But yes, this is something simple to do, just pull a field from the post table with a substring(field,200) to create a field that is the first 200 characters from the post.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: LoKe
Wouldn't be a hard thing for them to do.

<?php
$alttext = $array['post'];
$alttext = substr($alttext, 1, 200);
echo "<a href=\"$threadlink\" alt=\"$alttext\">$threadlink</a>";
?>

But I doubt it's worth their time right now.

This is a .NET board, not PHP. But yes, this is something simple to do, just pull a field from the post table with a substring(field,200) to create a field that is the first 200 characters from the post.

Pffft. .NET, shame on you! =p

EDIT: Ah, just noticed an error in my code. It should be:

$alttext = substr($alttext, 0, 200);

not

$alttext = substr($alttext, 1, 200);

Don't want to cut off the first letter!

 

[newnameman]

http://www.fusetalk.com/support/suggestions.cfm

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: TheNinja
Hey, just a suggestion. On many other forums, when you drag the mouse over a topic title, it displays approximately the first 3-4 lines of the actual post. That way you can sort of read where the post is going without having to click on it and go into the thread. Just thought that would be a nice feature if it's easily available.

i've brought up the possibility of this hover/read feature in the past also. it's great for realizing before you have to open the thread that it's not a thread you want to open in the first place.

we haven't had any feature updates here in a long time. it would be nice. 🙂

Agreed. I find myself hovering over a topic here all the time to get a little more info on it out of habit.