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I'm at https://www.daniweb.com/articles/latest/unanswered and when I mouse over the poster's gravatar or icon, all pop up with "First Post by" and the menber name.

OK, that's all well and good but then I was curious to see all the posts were "First Post by". Even one by me!

This is a truly minor bug but may as well log it.

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Short summary and suggestion based on the thread: 's confusion is valid — seeing a tooltip that says "First Post by ..." can easily be read as "this user's first-ever post" when the list view only shows a single avatar. As noted, the two avatars denote the thread starter and the most recent poster, but the current tooltip copy is ambiguous in single‑avatar contexts.

Small copy change that clears this up: for the left/first avatar use explicit text such as "Thread started by <username>" or the shorter "Started by <username>" (as suggested); for the right/second avatar use "Last post by <username>" or "Latest: <username>". In views that show only the starter (no replies), append a short hint like "— no replies" so it reads "Started by <username> — no replies". These changes keep the UX consistent across Latest and Unanswered lists and reduce mistaken assumptions about a member's posting history.

Implementation notes (accessibility and testing): set both the visible tooltip (title) and an accessible label (aria-label) so screen readers get the same wording. Example:

<span class="avatar" title="Thread started by {username}" aria-label="Thread started by {username}">...</span>

Verify the wording in Latest and Unanswered views, check with a screen reader, and confirm translations/character limits if the site is localized. Small copy tweaks here will remove the ambiguity without changing the UI layout.

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Member Avatar for Dani

Sorry, I'm misunderstanding the behavior you're reporting. What do you believe the expected behavior is and what are you seeing instead?

Member Avatar for rproffitt

To me "First Post by" is just that. It's this member's first ever post. I expected this if the member has this and only this post but otherwise it seems to be non-information so why bother with the pop up info?

Member Avatar for Dani

Oh, I see. The first avatar is the member who posted the first post in the thread. The second avatar is the member who posted the last post in the thread. Threads with 0 replies just have a first poster.

Does anyone else think what rproffitt thought?

Member Avatar for rproffitt

That makes sense over in the https://www.daniweb.com/articles/latest view where there are first and latest posts but on this page it seemed odd to me and my mind thought, oh, it's a new user and their first post.

This is really minor. It only made me ask when I went over 10 unanswered posts and all were first time posts then, wait a minute, I'm not a first time poster.

Member Avatar for alan.davies

How about thread starter? Or similar to avoid ambiguity?

Member Avatar for John_165

Link was broken

Member Avatar for Dani

What link was broken?

Member Avatar for Dani

Ok I’ll take a look at it tomorrow and see why it failed.

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