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Originally Posted by KGodel

So I could essentially just add $user['blabla'] = xxx; to set that within the userinfo? After that wouldn't I still need a template hook to pass those variables, or does userdata work by allowing anything in that data set to be referenced?

I'm not sure if I follow that, but when the postbit tremplate is being rendered, the userinfo is combined with the post info and registered to the template as 'post', so you should be able to use {vb:raw post.blabla} in the postbit (or postbit_legacy) template without doing anything else.