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[Syko]

is there a plugin that allows you to hover over a board or even a thread and let's your preview whats inside kinda like hovering over the images here on the support site?

[Lynx]

May 22, 2022 12:36:19 GMT -8 Syko said:

is there a plugin that allows you to hover over a board or even a thread and let's your preview whats inside kinda like hovering over the images here on the support site?

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[Chris]

If you are specifically asking that you get a popup or tooltip showing what threads (updated in real-time) are in a board before you actually enter the board then that would require sending secondary requests to the Proboards server after the initial page load request in order to fetch that additional info which is against the Proboards coding guidelines. Each request is paid for by the Ads displayed on the page and circumventing that is tantamount to stealing from the people who provide you a service free of charge (my opinion).

It's the same reason why plugins can't look ahead or look behind to other pages in order to gather information not available on the currently displayed page, each page is a separate request. In addition, multiple rapid requests spread across all forums that may have such a plugin installed would have the same effect of a DDOS attack (although I am sure PB has some rate limit mitigation stuff in place) by augmenting the number of requests the server would be expecting.

Threads already come with a tooltip (unless the theme you are using decided to do away with it), simply hover over a thread to see a tooltip to help you decide if the thread subject matches the content you are expecting to see