Thread Title Underlines

[satchnz]

Please forgive me if it’s always been like this but are the underlines under all thread titles (read and unread) new? It feels new as it seems very jarring to me.

If it is new then perhaps no underlines might look better, or keep them but make unread threads bolder?

 

[Jono777]

Glad you posted this as I spotted it a few days back and simply did not have the motivation to start a new thread (which would also possibly be underlined )

It looks horrible, its too much underlining and another case of something which was not broken and therefore did not require fixing.

 

[conker]

All good suggestions to be fair.

The underlines could be new, as there were some recent changes across the site with regards to links and underlining. Possibly there was an accidental knock on effect of these changes, that is something to figure out.

Firstly, we better figure out if the recent changes have had this effect.

Secondly, we can try and make the titles for the threads a bit more appealing.

I will speak to the other mods and see how best to approach, I will update here when I have some more details.

 

[conker]

Spoke to some of the other mods. This is a problem that is slightly tricky to sort out, so we will give it more attention after the bank holiday Monday. Thanks for raising it @satchnz

 

[maxd]

Please forgive me if it’s always been like this but are the underlines under all thread titles (read and unread) new? It feels new as it seems very jarring to me. ...

Yes, you’ve quite rightly identified what turns out to be a basic “feature” of our forum software, namely that we can have links underlined, or not: it’s an all or nothing thing, as things currently stand.

If we choose “all” then we get the mess we have now.
If we choose “none” then when someone posts a link in a thread there is no underline, so it doesn’t look like a link unless you actually hover over it.
So at this point it’s a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea, which satisfies pretty much no one.

We’ve looked into this in the past and there did appear to be a plug-in solution to get more nuanced underlining BUT that required yet another thing plugged into the Xenforo system which the DevOps guys have told us is creaking along with the stuff we already have plugged into it.

A real solution is going to take some trial and error and that is something we’re going to have to come up with a plan for because we don’t currently have one. In other words, we need to pick our poison and live with it for the time being.

As @conker mentioned, we’ll be looking into this in greater detail early next week.

- Max