[Smitty]

No - I didn't touch the code other than removing the fields in a template and the index.php file (if I remember correctly). I'm not motivated enough to really sit down and try to learn to code php. I took fortran, pl1 and cobol courses back in the early 1970's in college and have played with php, perl, etc a bit over the years - so if I get desparate I can follow what's happening reading through the code and Google when I get stuck. But I'm typically not that motivated. I try everything on my Mac Powerbook and if it works on it I make the change on the live BSD server.

That's in part why I mentioned server size. Is it unnecessary overhead for me? Yes - but not enough to even measure on my server. I used to fight those 'just a hair' battles from back in the days where a local ISP would complain because my WWWBoard scripts were taking up too much server CPU time. Each time I'd switch. Eventually I was at wits end on a Verio 'Virtual Server'. It was nice. 24/7/365 tech support answered within minutes. Fully managed. But only 2.4Gigs and I was sharing a processor and as time went on it got slower and slower. Even backing up the database was an hour plus WITH the forums shut down.

But when I 'over bought' (my 'advisor' said I should rent out some of the space and bandwidth) found my life became much less complicated. It's just me, I have plenty of processing power and plenty of disk space. I no longer fight 'just a hair would help' battles and my life has become remarkably uncomplicated.

Now, had the hack stopped working I would have put the fields back in and come here and asked 'how to'. I really wanted the truncated lenght at about 45. Lazy me - it worked and I'm happy. The 'regulars' use the do=getdaily for the last 24 hours of posts - they get the 'details' there so I don't see a 'user experience' problem.