Lack of interest Show Post as overlay in alert

[ragtek]

ATM we have this text in the alert box:

xxx liked your post in the thread xxx.

it would be cool, if on mouseover on "post" a box with the post would apear (like on forumlist, if you hover over an thread, or like on my recent threads box ( http://ragtek.org/xenforo/ )

Often i'd like to know which post was liked, but it's IMHO unnecessary to load the complete page for this....

 

[James]

I'm in two minds.. is it worth an extra query just to see a like when I can click the page and load it in less than 2s and I'm not sure if a drop-down and a tooltip in that small area is going to be friendly, but on the other hand it's a handy feature.

 

[a legacy reborn]

I like the idea, but it seems pretty hard to implement and it could possibly cause some issues...it is kinda hard to decide, I say it is best as a mod .

 

[ragtek]

I'm in two minds.. is it worth an extra query just to see a like when I can click the page and load it in less than 2s and I'm not sure if a drop-down and a tooltip in that small area is going to be friendly, but on the other hand it's a handy feature.

1 extra query?
loading the whole page needs more ressources & traffic.

 

[Panupat]

I like the idea, but it seems pretty hard to implement and it could possibly cause some issues...it is kinda hard to decide, I say it is best as a mod .

The implementation doesn't sound too hard. You query the post, truncate it, load an overlay template and put it in there. bam. But James made a good point. I'd just click on the link to see the post and other posts around it too.

1 extra query - for the message only. No need to load anything else there I suppose.

 

[ragtek]

The implementation doesn't sound too hard. You query the post, truncate it, load an overlay template and put it in there. bam. But James made a good point. I'd just click on the link to see the post and other posts around it too.

1 extra query - for the message only. No need to load anything else there I suppose.

lol
once again, the process between xf getting the request and the xenforo outputs needs much more then 1 query (even for overlays )

 

[Panupat]

I see :O

 

[a legacy reborn]

lol
once again, the process between xf getting the request and the xenforo outputs needs much more then 1 query (even for overlays )

+1, I don't think it would really make too much of a mess design wise(xF has always been good with the designing) but the extra queries does not seem worth it IMHO.

 

[ragtek]

That's what i mean:

Pos1 isn't necessary because the text is already shown, but i prefer the overlay for my boards
and POS2 is what i'm requesting=>

(there's only 1 problem in the standard style => http://xenforo.com/community/posts/234842/ )