When I'm scanning a list of threads (whether it be within a particular forum or on the What's New page), the title isn't always enough for me to decide whether I'm interested in the thread or not. If the thread preview was there, it would greatly help to make that decision. Without it, Ispendwaste more time opening and closing threads/tabs than I need to, since I'm blindly going into the discussion thread.
This feature is so requested that even IP.Board had to add it after several years of not having it (link).
Is a feature like this bloat? I don't think so. It's not in the way - it's just there on the forum ... excuse my lack of technical know how!!
Having the ability to preview the contents when hovering over the thread title is a must have feature.
Thank you.
Feeling your pain lol. It happens to me every time as well.I'm almost going insane everytime I hover over a thread title.
I feel the same about it, mixed feelings. In vBulletin 3.8 it actually shows when hovering over the whole threadbit. So only making it show when hovering for a few seconds over the thread title would already make it less harassing.I am still split about this. I like it at times, but the same amount of times I just want to idle the mouse or point something out and more and more tooltips pop up. ugh. I dunno.
I feel the same about it, mixed feelings. In vBulletin 3.8 it actually shows when hovering over the whole threadbit. So only making it show when hovering for a few seconds over the thread title would already make it less harassing.
They changed that back recently I believe. 4.0.3 had the preview on just the link, 4.0.5 now has it showing up on the entire threadbit.I've had to modify the template for years to make the preview only come up when hovering over the link as it should be. Many have complained for years to vbulletin to fix this annoying problem. But unfortunately they are extremely slow to make changes. I think after 6 years it will be finally fixed, but I'm not holding my breath.
They changed that back recently I believe. 4.0.3 had the preview on just the link, 4.0.5 now has it showing up on the entire threadbit.
I also have a love/hate for the preview, I almost prefer a mouse click preview of some type. Thing is, this software operates far faster so the preview may not be as important.
I followed your journey. You made the request, they changed it fairly quickly, and the older versions (at least 4.0.3) did indeed only show the preview in the New Posts when over the actual thread title.What you have noticed is that the New Posts page has the hover over the link and the forumdisplay has it at the cell level. I submitted a bug about 6 months ago and they agreed to fix it so that the preview will be over the link for both. I anticipate that sometime in about 100 years they will get around to actually making the 1 minute change.
Something like that might be really nice, depending on exact implementation. Question is, where on the screen should it show up.http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/tabs/mouseover.html (jQuery tools demo)
couldn't something similar be implemented where each title's container element when hover displays a preview similar to the 2,3,4, blocks that popup when you look at this post in the threadlist? And to add to that could a checkbox determine preview on/off somewhere above the first thread?
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