diff --git a/framework/core/ember/app/components/index/discussion-listing.js b/framework/core/ember/app/components/index/discussion-listing.js
index cf960ffd4..cead2aa49 100755
--- a/framework/core/ember/app/components/index/discussion-listing.js
+++ b/framework/core/ember/app/components/index/discussion-listing.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import Ember from 'ember';
 
 import HasItemLists from 'flarum/mixins/has-item-lists';
 import FadeIn from 'flarum/mixins/fade-in';
+import humanTime from 'flarum/utils/human-time';
 
 /**
   Component for a discussion listing on the discussions index. It has `info`
@@ -38,10 +39,14 @@ export default Ember.Component.extend(FadeIn, HasItemLists, {
     return this.get('terminalPostType') === 'last' && this.get('discussion.repliesCount');
   }),
 
-  start: Ember.computed('discussion.lastPostNumber', 'discussion.readNumber', function() {
+  jumpTo: Ember.computed('discussion.lastPostNumber', 'discussion.readNumber', function() {
     return Math.min(this.get('discussion.lastPostNumber'), (this.get('discussion.readNumber') || 0) + 1);
   }),
 
+  authorInfo: Ember.computed('discussion.startUser.username', 'discussion.startTime', function() {
+    return (this.get('discussion.startUser.username') || '[deleted]')+' started '+humanTime(this.get('discussion.startTime'));
+  }),
+
   relevantPosts: Ember.computed('discussion.relevantPosts', 'discussion.startPost', 'discussion.lastPost', function() {
     if (this.get('controller.show') !== 'posts') { return []; }
     if (this.get('controller.searchQuery')) {
@@ -53,6 +58,10 @@ export default Ember.Component.extend(FadeIn, HasItemLists, {
     }
   }),
 
+  didInsertElement: function() {
+    this.$('.author').tooltip({ placement: 'right' });
+  },
+
   populateControls: function(items) {
     this.addActionItem(items, 'delete', 'Delete', 'times', 'discussion.canDelete');
   },
diff --git a/framework/core/ember/app/helpers/user-avatar.js b/framework/core/ember/app/helpers/user-avatar.js
index 257952c2b..b65af43ee 100644
--- a/framework/core/ember/app/helpers/user-avatar.js
+++ b/framework/core/ember/app/helpers/user-avatar.js
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ export default Ember.Handlebars.makeBoundHelper(function(user, options) {
 
   if (user) {
     var username = user.get('username') || '?';
-    attributes += ' title="'+Ember.Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression(username)+'"';
+
+    if (typeof options.hash.title === 'undefined') {
+      options.hash.title = Ember.Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression(username);
+    }
+    attributes += ' title="'+options.hash.title+'"';
 
     var avatarUrl = user.get('avatarUrl');
     if (avatarUrl) {
diff --git a/framework/core/ember/app/templates/components/index/discussion-listing.hbs b/framework/core/ember/app/templates/components/index/discussion-listing.hbs
index 2f7fd9060..5fc13f377 100644
--- a/framework/core/ember/app/templates/components/index/discussion-listing.hbs
+++ b/framework/core/ember/app/templates/components/index/discussion-listing.hbs
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
     menuClass="pull-right"}}
 {{/if}}
 
-{{#link-to "user" discussion.startUser class="author"}}{{user-avatar discussion.startUser}}{{/link-to}}
+{{#link-to "user" discussion.startUser class="author" title=authorInfo}}{{user-avatar discussion.startUser title=""}}{{/link-to}}
 
 {{ui/item-list items=discussion.badges class="badges"}}
 
-{{#link-to "discussion" discussion (query-params start=start) current-when="discussion" class="main"}}
+{{#link-to "discussion" discussion (query-params start=jumpTo) current-when="discussion" class="main"}}
   <h3 class="title">{{highlight-words discussion.title searchQuery}}</h3>
   {{ui/item-list items=info class="info"}}
 {{/link-to}}