Whats with the empty '[ ]' brackets at the front of all the threads?

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Someone been bored and having an unnecessary tinker?

Presumably linked to the fact that when you are in 'Out of Focus / General Discussion' the navigation bar at the top only shows Forums>Community and not Forums>Community>Out of Focus.

If it ain't broke, dont fix it.
 
Just seen this, also in the "welcome" section ?

Just done a quick check and it seems it appears on all threads you open ...
 
andyred said:
Just seen this, also in the "welcome" section ?

Just done a quick check and it seems it appears on all threads you open ...
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Yep sure does. Marcel got a day off I expect..
 
Yep it is.
At the top of the forum is what's known as the breadcrumb
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I've modified it to include the thread title with prefix. Unfortunately, when there's a prefix it looks a bit ugly...so I changed it to show the prefix but without the HTML colour coding etc, and just put a plain [ ] around it.

Sadly I didn't have the foresight to realise that the square brackets aren't conditional on there actually being a prefix....doh!
 
Fixed it, although "If it aint broke, don't fix it".
I regularly tinker to improve the forums. I'm not sitting here with ideas to change and improve the forums and not do them ;)
 
Fair enough.

can you explain why the 'breadcrumb' when one is in Out of Focus only shows Forums > community ?
As shown in your screen grab above, when you're in a thread, the breadcrumb shows full path to that thread. Surely it should do the same and show the full path to whatever subforum you are in when you are not "in" a thread as it were?

To me, (as a software engineer), its not consistent.
 
Yeah I see what you mean. I actually only wanted to change it for the thread view.
The original XenForo styling omits the thread title from the breadcrumb and instead puts it as a rather large header, taking up screen realestate.
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So I wanted to move it to somewhere less prominent.
 
Actually I've just read up again on the difference in the breadcrumb in the thread view and forum view.
I remember now why I didn't change it for the forum view as it requires changes to the actual forum code rather than a template.
 
I've put the required edit in, as I'd prefer it consistent like you mention. I'll put the code modification into an addon when I get five minutes :)
 
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