Here's the "final" version. All control is now accomplished via the Edit Options section of the User CP. Each user can turn on Threaded Forum Views or not as they desire. Nor is coupled to the Thread Display Mode. This wouund up being so straightforwad that it sure would be nice if VB would incorporate something like this in a 3.x release.

Morris, you gotta fight for it - because it's good, and I know what I'm talking about!

Thanks man, what else are you planning to code for vb2? Maybe we should work together?

Release of version 1.2 corrects a bug involving unregistered users. The fix is contained in the zip file included with the first post and involves a slight modification to sessions.php. This is now running live on my site with RC2.

Thansk tgmorris really good

First of all, thank you very much to Tom for developing this hack. This is something that should have been included as a basic functionality in VB3.

A couple of questions:
Would it be difficult to modify it a litle bit so that the member's name appears after the title instead of in front?

Would it be feasible to display unread links in bold and read links in normal font?

Is is possible to be able to integrate an option in the "quick links" menu to be able to toggle the view on and off in addition to seetting the default view in the user CP?

Thanks again for creating this Tom. Great job.

#1 is just a simple template mod.

#2 is a fairly minor code change.

#3 can be done but would be different than how all the other User CP stuff works.

Version 1.4 of Threaded Forum Views has been released for vb3 RC3.

Thanks. It's getting better and better.
You should propose to include it in the 3.1 version ...

Thanks for the compliment. I've contacted the staff on that possibility. Whether it will ever happen or not is almost anybody's guess.

Yes, congratulations! :) I made my own hack, but yours is better. Still I have a few problems. 1) I couldn't decipher this bit in the instructions: "Find the call to "fetch_trimmed_title" in 2 places and add ", $bbuserinfo['field7']" to the argument list." What do you mean exactly? 2) There are some odd vertical spaces between some of the posts when in "Compact" mode?!?

EDIT: Oh yeah, it would be nice if you could switch between the two modes from the forumdisplay (like you can when you are reading a thread). Perhaps an idea for 1.5 ;)