# New feature.. Would help.. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 11, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507 "2003-03-11T06:56:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/1 "2003-03-11T06:56:08Z")
On another board I go to, which uses Vbullitin, whenever you hover over the link for a thread it gives you the first paragraph, basically telling you what’s inside. Can we activate this feature on this board? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/2 "2003-03-11T08:24:23Z")
Why? You only need click the thread title, take a peek, then move on if you want to. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/3 "2003-03-11T13:51:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \* > \*\*On another board I go to, which uses Vbullitin, whenever you hover over the link for a thread it gives you the first paragraph, basically telling you what’s inside. > Can we activate this feature on this board? \*\* It’s not a feature that can just be activated at-will, it’s a hack/modification of the code. Unless it is a feature of 3.0, which is still only a beta product. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/4 "2003-03-11T23:35:29Z")
It would help for those on 56k. Save them time from clicking and waiting for a thread, clicking on another thread and wasting their time on a subject they dont wanna read about. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/5 "2003-03-11T23:49:49Z")
Bah. No one with a 56k modem should be allowed to complain until I start. I’m still using a 14.4 and will be until I can afford a new computer. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/6 "2003-03-12T05:59:16Z")
Hell, I 'm on DSL, and it can take a while for this place to load up. And if you tack on one paragraph per thread in the forum index, it’d take even longer. Better just to be picky. Plus hacking the vB, like this seems to be, will void the warranty provided by vB, so they won’t even lend us a superhamster once in a while when a bunch of ours drop dead. Kat- for quite a while, I dialed the public library through VT 102, and used their 9600 connection with a Lynx browser via proxy. Reminds me of this bit from the Page of Funnies (originally from here): > [@](#): > > …All we had was rocks and sticks. Rock = 0 and Stick =1. You’d get a line of code all written and then a dog would come and carry off your 1’s and you’d have to start all over. You guys had it easy. > > You had rocks and sticks?? Geez, try growing up in the desert. . . Grains of sand made the coding damn near impossible! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/7 "2003-03-12T22:34:54Z")
> [@](#): > > It would help for those on 56k. Save them time from clicking and waiting for a thread, clicking on another thread and wasting their time on a subject they dont wanna read about. Probably not, actually. That information still has to get to you somehow. Either it retreives it only when you mouseover, in which case you’d have to wait a while to see the paragraph anyway, or it pre-retrieves the first paragraph of every thread on the page, in which case you’d have to wait to get the first paragraph of every single thread before being able to read any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/8 "2003-03-13T15:19:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Probably not, actually… Besides, the admins could put the extra bandwidth to better use by putting up a large .gif animation of Cecil doing a strip-tease. _That’d_ make this joint workable as a pay-site ! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-feature-would-help/160507/9 "2003-03-13T15:30:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squink \* > \*\*Besides, the admins could put the extra bandwidth to better use by putting up a large .gif animation of Cecil doing a strip-tease. _That’d_ make this joint workable as a pay-site ! \*\* _shudder_