Should we standardize our page titles

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Should we standardize our page titles

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Right now our page titles are inconsistent

When iewing topics and forums we show (which is usually preferred for many reasons):
page title • site name

All other pages are reversed:
site name • page title

Should we update our page titles (simplify it) to show the former for all pages?
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Re: Should we standardize our page titles

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Ahem...

I think the point of the way it is now is because the user is more interested in seeing the topic or forum title than the site name in their title bar or favorites.
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Re: Should we standardize our page titles

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DavidIQ wrote: Thu May 25, 2017 5:25 pm Ahem...

I think the point of the way it is now is because the user is more interested in seeing the topic or forum title than the site name in their title bar or favorites.
I agree. And I think we should now extend that to be board wide. because this becomes an issue with extensions. For example, Pages extension. Those users may want page names to come before site names.

Also it's just weird now if you have a bunch of open tabs... where some pages are site name first, and others are content first. ;)

Like here:
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Re: Should we standardize our page titles

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Yes, we should. IMO.
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Re: Should we standardize our page titles

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Second that. "Page title - Sitename " works better.

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