Update (v1.10 2004-03-01)
Version 1.10 released, which uses the beginning of a post as a title if the post does not have a title, and also trims long titles down to a decent size. Minor optimizations. regardinghackupdate.txt added for existing users, regardinghack.txt updated for new users.

I decided that using the beginning of the post instead of "untitled post" was better than using the post number both from usability and overhead perspectives.

Very cool! Installed w/o a hitch.

Thanks! :D

It's a very nice hack, but you might want to consider renaming it since the search engine on this site won't search for "regarding".

Cheers

Hmm, I changed the thread name, but I really don't know anything more searchable that describes it.

What happens if someone replies to another post inside the thread ... instead of the first post?

It shows which post inside the thread that a person replied to.

Thankyou for this useful hack. I've installed it on vB 3.0.3 without a problem. I clicked *install*.

In your txt document at the bottom you said: "The following is an example of the code that you might add to the postbit or postbit_legacy and (optionally) to postbit_deleted, postbit_ignore, and postbit_ignore_global templates, which demonstrates the use of all variables:"

I've only added the template change to postbit. How can I view these other templates you mention - postbit_deleted, postbit_ignore, and postbit_ignore_global templates - to decide whether to add the same changes to them. I don't know what these other templates do.

You need to expand the Postbit Templates:

Postbit Templates [» «]
* postbit [Customize]
* postbit_attachment [Customize]
* postbit_attachmentimage [Customize]
* postbit_attachmentmoderated [Customize]
* postbit_attachmentthumbnail [Customize]
* postbit_deleted [Customize]
* postbit_ignore [Customize]
* postbit_ignore_global [Customize]
* postbit_ip [Customize]
* postbit_legacy [Customize]
* postbit_onlinestatus [Customize]
* postbit_reputation

Sorry Live Wire, my question was not clear. How can I view those templates in the forum to see the effect of the changes? I know where to see the effect of postbit changes in the showthread display. Where can those other templates be viewed within the forum?

postbit_deleted Is that the postbit left after a post has been soft-deleted?

postbit_ignore Is that the postbit left from a poster on someone's Ignore List?

postbit_ignore_global Is that the postbit left from a poster on the Global Ignore List?

You are correct MDD :) Sorry didn't understand the question.