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FYI, I hate the new forum because you can't see the last poster's name, so I don't know if there's something new or not.
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If you hover the mouse over the line that show the time (example - "last: 4m") it will display the username.
I think this is the number one complaint I've seen today. The hover feature sucks, and takes too long to appear. The great thing about the original version was that you could just glance real quick and see who the latest poster was, which was crucial. I had also installed the TexAgs Chrome extension where you could tag certain threads, and it told you how many posts had been added to that thread since your last refresh, which I can't live without now. Kind of going crazy without it. I thought for sure the new update would incorporate something like that, and I'm kind of shocked it didn't. I'm also surprised we still can't embed videos. On the Entertainment board, especially, that would have been awesome. Seems like that was available in other forums years ago, but that's no surprise.
I hate to gripe, though. I'm friends with Stewart, who headed this whole deal up, and I don't envy anyone trying to please all of TexAgs. As someone who's about to launch a website of my own, I know I'll get tons of gripes/critiques myself, so I can empathize. Overall, I appreciate the idea of what they're aiming for, and I really do like the vibe. I love empty white space, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but if they can just keep this general vibe, and lose some of the unnecessary spacing to where we don't have to scroll so damn much, and maybe re-implement a couple of old features (like viewable last poster), I think it'd be perfect. Hopefully they'll get there.