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Or so it would seem: some coincedences yesterday, with one of ezboard’s Yuku developers taking time out from his busy schedule to do some substantial promotional editing to the Yuku entry on Wikipedia.

He did the same thing on the same day to the ezboard Wikipedia entry, specifically the bit where it says:

“ezboard, Inc., based in the San Francisco, California, United States, claims to be the largest provider of free hosted Internet forums.”

Without any substantiation, he had changed this to read:

“ezboard, Inc., based in the San Francisco, California, United States, widely known as the largest provider of free hosted Internet forums.”

[emphasis added to both quotes]

Fortunately, another user picked this up and ‘reverted’ the entry.

And spookily enough, on the same day, the Administrator of ezboard’s favourite, the Survivor Sucks board edited their Wikipedia entry to remove the section about the apparent free Gold Trial status and anonymous withdrawl. He does explain why here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Survivor_Sucks

Coincedental, eh?

Good to see that ezboard staff are remaining ‘on-message’ about those other nasty message board systems.

In this thread in the Suggestions forum on Yuku, a user asks back in July if the thread preview feature in vBulletin (whereby hovering your mouse over a thread title in the forum display window provides a snapshot of the first few lines of that thread so you can decide if you want to read the whole thread) could be implemented on Yuku.

Other users then voice their support for it, whilst some ezApologists say they don’t like it.

ezboard’s Michelle then says:

“I don’t like it either as I think it takes away from a board’s natural interaction. If you’ve only just read the first 50 words of a post then chances are pretty good that you might miss the most important thing written right at the very end…
…  Another reason I dislike it…”

And now with version 2.0 of Yuku, a half-hearted attempt at this very feature has been implemented so Michelle now says:

“yes, it seems to be a very short bit of text – not distracting and still doesn’t give away the whole of the thread.”

In other words, Yuku’s chocolate teapot implementation – it doesn’t show enough of a preview to be worthwhile, around a dozen or so - is good because it’s a Yuku feature now!