After noticing that Google were serving related forum sitelinks I came across this example of extended snippets under these sitelinks today:

Extended snippets beneath related forum sitelinks
Extended snippets beneath related forum sitelinks

This looks like it’s related to extended snippets which Google introduced back in March this year (see post on Extended Snippets). The search query consisted of 6 words, and the main results displayed extended snippets. Quite interesting, and I’m sure click-through rates are quite useful when you get these sitelinks (and the extended screen real estate).

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