If I can bring a last-minute suggestion: I think it might look a little better with line breaks between each column.

If I had better editing skills, I might come up with an example. I may make something.



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This is a little close Memento Mori, from the first page;


I personally don't mind how it looks like that, but the only issue is it causes a lot of extra vertical space, since it's rare for threads to have a caption in most places.

But now if we made the tags text like in your post...that may work. (With of course, the option to setup tags like they currently are, as this setup is invaluable for some places, like RFS/Buy&Sell/whatever)



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quote Redemption

I think there are problems no matter where we position it. When I look at the entire page with the prefix tag underneath the title I find it really hard to read thread titles at all. It might be best to make it an option but that adds more complexity to the feature, but I think readability is reduced by the presence of the prefix tag, not just by its position.

Indeed. Having applied them to the front page of TV shows they push the title text over and confuse the eyes. They'd do the same thing right below the title or in a different column. The sorting factor is invaluable though - I kind of wish they could show up in the thread, and a cloud at the top of a forum, but not on the side of every thread in forum view themselves.



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quote Lorx

Touche, what about:



1: Newfangled
2: Oldfangled
3: Actually has a point now.

edit: I think it should still be an option (on the mod's part) to show thread tags in their current position, as there are benefits and reasons to use that spot. But for general use (aka default), it makes things look uneven (which we've all agreed on I think).

I've created a few repositions to see how it looks in real life:


From the PES2012 forum:


In RFS:



I think there are problems no matter where we position it. When I look at the entire page with the prefix tag underneath the title I find it really hard to read thread titles at all. It might be best to make it an option but that adds more complexity to the feature, but I think readability is reduced by the presence of the prefix tag, not just by its position.



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quote Cyanide

Wait a minute; this is a thing now? Then, can we please look back a few months when I suggested forum specific tags I still think they would work if we customized different tags for different forums.

That's something moderators are able to do already.



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