whaaaat? difficulty of doing it, i can understand, but because "custom code"? you know that thread preview you get when you mouse-over a thread title? iirc that was custom code when it was done (i'll have to ask chr1.5 again), although i'm finally starting to see it more than more places, after years and years of bl being the only place.
but that was many many years ago, under an entirely different admin team and engineer group, and i have no idea how things are now.
maybe after the upgrade thats coming soon, we could try pushing for it, since it'll probably be quite a while before there's another upgrade after this one. :D