Maes Posted October 15, 2013 They normally are not visible (I think) so other than some witty hidden message to whoever quotes your posts, do they have any actual use for non-first posts in a thread? Can they be seen with some setting? Were they visible by default in some older Doomworld era? 0 Share this post Link to post
schwerpunk Posted October 15, 2013 I know on some other phpbb forums I visit the subject is visible above every post. Must have to do with the skin the forum uses. To my knowledge, DW only has the one skin. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dragonsbrethren Posted October 15, 2013 Probably a holdover from those awful threaded layouts forums used to use, where every reply was nested under the OP in the index. Anyone remember *nt* replies? Also like schwerpunk said, there are layouts/themes that show these titles above posts. 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted October 16, 2013 Some forums only show it if typed in, while I've seen others that, for no known purpose, have placeholder text that shows up. Generally it's obnoxious. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zed Posted October 16, 2013 I don't get it. Do you mean that you can "put titles" in posts (not threads) in this forum? That seems like an irrelevant feature. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 16, 2013 Zed said:I don't get it. Do you mean that you can "put titles" in posts (not threads) in this forum? That seems like an irrelevant feature. Well.... try replying to this post ;-) 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 16, 2013 darknation said:you know, I never even noticed. Maybe you need to look closer. 0 Share this post Link to post
Hellbent Posted October 16, 2013 The subject is optional Maes. What's all the fuss? No, I'm kidding. I've actually been wondering the same thing every single time I make a post for as far back as I can remember. Maybe a great and venerable mod will shed some light on this issue once and for all. edit: I think I actually know the reason, and thus never bothered to ask about it: removing it for reply posts would require more programming, and since it being there in replies doesn't do any harm, they just left it like that. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted October 16, 2013 I think that the subjects are just in the forum code and someone needs to hide the post subjects. 0 Share this post Link to post
Blzut3 Posted October 16, 2013 they show up in the printable version of the thread. 0 Share this post Link to post
Krispy Posted October 16, 2013 It is a bit confusing, I always thought. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted October 16, 2013 It used to be visible; it was intentionally removed by Linguica, IIRC. 0 Share this post Link to post
Grazza Posted October 16, 2013 Indeed, that's how it was on the old forums, and it didn't add much. Here is an example. 0 Share this post Link to post