thanks for the detailed reply

i'm not seeing on screen what's in your attachment, simply a standard small placeholder image with the name of the file beside it. i guess perhaps that's an individual member setting that i need to turn on?

in any case, as things stand, having thumbnails appear in the thread itself is not really much use to me. as i said, the beauty of my current system is that members can decide whether to view any particular thread on the basis of what appears in the thumbnail that appears on the list screen. i'm rather surprised that a similar system hasn't been incorporated into vBulletin itself, as the facility is used by a number of art sites, such as the CG Society (which as far as i can recall uses vBulletin). still, seems to me that the current thrust is towards dreary "social networking" and other hot air facilities, so i guess it's not that surprising

anyway, at least i know where i stand now, so thanks for the information, it's helped me finalise my decision as to whether to upgrade or not


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