browser tabs kind of messed it up for a bunch of us. title tag is basically gone from the view.
i would see what i can do about making thread title more visible. if you are writing a longer reply, it might be a good idea to just add reply
to thread url and load full reply page. xenforo for some stupid reason decided to keep it hidden with no access from quick reply section. i have been using reply for years for shitposting because it is just faster than loading the thread itself.
https://broadband.forum/t/75978/reply
would open a dedicated reply page for this thread...
as for shorter urls... i have never liked how xenforo changes the thread url whenever you change the thread title. which happens way too often. i personally would have loved if it was a real permalink with a fixed length (longer thread titles generated way too long url). but since that's not possible, i had been switching between full and compact url over the past couple of years. now i finally decided to keep the urls short because switching between them is just a stupid thing to do wrt indexing.