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[Dots] [Hot] [New]

osarusan · 2020-02-06 08:31:10

There used to be a function where if you hovered over the little envelope-with-an-arrow-in-it icon next to a thread, it would say 'You have 8 posts in this thread' or whatever number it was. Now if you hover over it, it just says [Dots] [Hot] [New]. Is the function going to return, or is it gone for good?

06-02-2020 09:31AM

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There used to be a function where if you hovered over the little envelope-with-an-arrow-in-it icon next to a thread, it would say 'You have 8 posts in this thread' or whatever number it was.

Now if you hover over it, it just says [Dots] [Hot] [New].

Is the function going to return, or is it gone for good?

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#2 08-02-2020 08:03PM

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Anybody?

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#3 09-02-2020 03:04PM

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TBH I didn't realise it returned your own postcount within a thread like that. I can certainly see it, with different tags depending on if it's "new" "hot" or if you have posts (which seems to be the "dots" bit)

I guess it's only one the office or someone from the development team can comment on. The developers do look in on the Site Development forum and I'll move this thread over there (from Help Desk)

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#4 10-02-2020 10:52AM

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Hi osarusan,

Sorry for the delay. I'm afraid this isn't a function that I use myself, so can I ask when you noticed it had stopped working?

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

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#5 10-02-2020 12:25PM

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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

Hi osarusan,

Sorry for the delay. I'm afraid this isn't a function that I use myself, so can I ask when you noticed it had stopped working?

Not long before I started this thread, but it might have stopped working a bit earlier...just happened to notice it.

I would only use it when looking to find my own posts within a thread - it tells me how many, so I know to scroll down to that number when looking at the total 'Who posted?' list

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#6 06-03-2020 11:13AM

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Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

Hi osarusan,

Sorry for the delay. I'm afraid this isn't a function that I use myself, so can I ask when you noticed it had stopped working?

I remember using this feature and finding it useful. It stopped working ~2014: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?p=89794269

Mr E's post in that thread shows that the alt attribute of the image tag has the useful information while the title attribute has [Dots] [Hot] [New].

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