What I have been doing for my forums and my private hacks is call the extra datastore items from fetch() and not worry about the extra query at this time.
In my opinion people are too query-mad. 1 or 2 extra very light weight queries are no fuss in the shortterm for most boards.
Once a solution appears, the queries go away.
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On that note, i dont believe there necessarily needs to be any kind of single method of doing it if this functionality is eventually going to get added to vBulletin - the way we do it wont match the way they do it, so why have hacks that create incompatibilities like that?
Maybe we could at least get an official word on their stance, then we would at least know what our position is.
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