I think it would be a good feature to have to be able to see the first few parts of what is written inside a thread before opening it. As in if you hover over the title of the post, it shows a brief of what it is going to be about.

You totally got this from vBulletin. Well, it could be helpful, I suppose.

Before we do that, we need a character limit increase .

I didn't get it from vBulletin. I got it from another forum lol.

We used to have this as a feature, but it began to pull a massive load on the server since the content of the post is, I believe, not stored in the topics table.