[RedWingFan]

Originally Posted by Mosh

It still does not get around guests viewing the board in legacy view (forum-wide legacy view), as far as I can see, which is what people have been asking for, and that does not seem achievable without edits to the core files.

True. I figure newer members won't notice the difference, but the existing members are already set to stay at the old view. For now that's good enough for me. I think this should have been a user-selectable option in vB itself, as I know a lot of users (including myself) prefer the postbit over on the side (either left, or on the right like phpBB3 does) as it makes reading posts much easier. I prefer signatures off as well, but being an admin means I have to monitor those, as does my staff.

I may hit the database in a few weeks to see who is using the horizontal vs. the vertical postbit layout.

The only other swap I can think of, would be to copy the contents of the postbit_legacy template to postbit, and vice versa. That would mess up future upgrades (you'd have to revert templates, redo the swap, then re-insert any custom template edits by hand), but it may be another quick and dirty way to handle it. If there are hooks in both that are specific to postbit and/or postbit_legacy, those would have to be renamed as well. Untested, of course...and I'm not brave enough to try it even on my test forum.