The Bus

IB-Dick, did you hit another switch when you turned on the thread icons...

The Bus

^ because these titles are coming up in each post now.

wishbone

Test

EDIT: Yep.

IB-Dick

Yup... and for a specific reason. Unless there is a huge blowback from you guys about it, there is benefit to having them turned on.

So, the question is to you guys..... does it really bother you guys THAT much?

WallyOPD

It's mildly annoying but it's not that big of a deal. I'm sure if it's left on then I won't even notice them within a couple weeks.

Bill Geiger

nope....fine by me

Cardsfan111

I'm sure it's something we could get used to...just seems so redundant to see the thread title repeated over and over again as you scroll down.

Are we supposed to guess what the reason/benefit is behind the switch?

Cardsfan111

Hey...your response didn't have the title in the post...

The Bus

It's pretty annoying. Between the avatars, the sigs, the countdowns, and now these titles, the site is getting really visually crowded.

VinVega

You can manually take it out if you want to.

The Bus

And now you can add images to signatures too.

WallyOPD

If that's the case then I hope IB allows us a way to turn off signature images in our settings. I'd rather not turn off all sigs but I'll have to if a bunch of images start showing up in them.

Venusian

about the same time as this, i noticed the forums have descriptions on every page...like above i see: Forum Feedback and Support Post forum feedback and related problems, here.

El Scorcho

meh most message boards have them anyway

IB-Dick

That's been turned off.

That was also done by me for similar reasons.

Yes.

Just kidding. This was done to increase the keyword density on the page. It should help with search engine rankings. The descriptions have been added to help categorize the content of the page and should help define the overall page hierarchy of the forum. Also done for search engine optimization.

The Bus

Aw fuck. After I spent like fifteen minutes doing this for my sig:

IB-Dick

Also, just an FYI... Beyond the SEO aspect of the Re: stuff, I read an article probably a year back about optimizing a site for tabbed browsing, which has obviously become more and more popular over the years. It discussed the benefit of having those types of annotations on the page so that people bouncing between tabs don't have to scroll to the top of the page to remember the context of the thread they are reading (it was more about comment systems on blogs, but same general idea). My personal thought was "duh, just look at the page title," but redundancy is often a better approach.

whotony

^^^

IB-Dick

Awe.... I'm sorry.

The Bus

Well, at least let me add a positive:

I do like how quoting works now.

dx23

I find this annoying.

whotony

what's different from before?

Spicollidriver1

I personally think it is annoying.
I do have a different request that I think would be more helpful if only slightly. Can we have "thread Starter" under the username . Macrumors uses this and I have found it helpful when answering questions and responding to the right person and helps keep from someone else hijacking the thread.

p.s I also like post previews especially when it comes to forums with trade threads

lordwow

On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd rank this incredibly annoying.

Goldberg74

... I for one can't stand the auto-included titles.

I will be making a conscious effort to remove them from my posts.

They are quite annoying, I know what thread I am in... I don't need to be reminded every post..