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Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.

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  • 06-02-2020 9:31am
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    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,549 ✭✭✭✭


    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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    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,549 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Anybody?


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    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    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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    Boards.ie: Mark
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mark
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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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    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,549 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    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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    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,121 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    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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