Awesome new thing to do.... Andrew

[Paint Bulley]

OK I went to another forum yesturday..

:(
yes I know it was not right... well this forum really sucked. There was nothing good. Nobody was even close to being smart. THey were all idiots.

Then I saw it. You run your mouse over a topic and a box appears and shows you the first post. It's not like you just run it over and it appears and annoys you, but it shows you the first post after a second or two.

I hate going to a topic that looks really really good, and then the posts don't have much to do with it. or a title that dosn't make sense so you go to see, what it is and then you have to go back. This may not be much of a hassle for those with a quick internet , but for me it sometimes sucks.

If you don't know what I mean andrew, I ill send you the web site.

But this option is really cool. would it be possible?

Thanks,

[Andrew]

I am guessing they used DHTML and had a new layer appear that displays the first post.

It would be possible, but it would probably be too difficult for it to be worth it.

Can I see the site?

[Paint Bulley]

here you go.. only good thing about this

site.http://www.paintball.com/forums/list.cfm?forum=16

that was just the forum I was on.. just run the arrow over the topic for a sec.

[Andrew]

I'll think about it...

It will also slow down the loading of forum pages because it has to query the database to grab the first post for each thread.

[pr0kch0p]

i like the idea, but i dont think its a fair trade off.

i'd rather have faster page loads than little novelties.

[Paint Bulley]

Opening forum + opening a thread + finding out it is a stupid thread + going back to the forum = less than

A slower opening forum = 3 less steps.

I don't know what the time would equal though. That fourm didn't take that long to load. they didn't have as many threads. but still.


Oh i don't know, anybody else have an opinion?

[snipinhick]

i think its a good idea, but then i have a DSL modem and speed isn't a problem no matter the site. for all those 56kers that could pose a problem.

[Incube]

Yeah modemers would hate it....I on the other hand dont really care i look through all new threads no matter what the tittle.