Where's the beef, er I mean

[Steamtrains]

the little cartoon type ballon the would come up when you rested your cursor on a thread/ topic tittle that would tell you what the thread was about before you clicked on the thread? That way when you saw the first sentence contain 40 words like mine just did you could move on without wasting anymore time.

It was there before the big switch but seems to have disappeared.

I was wondering about this as well....