Possible to disable Read/Unread system?

[gimbal]

Hi, I couldn't find any previous instance of this question, but is there a simple toggle somewhere to disable the display of the large Read/Unread icons? We have a large forum and nobody uses the read/unread system, and the screen real estate is at a premium.

I'm not a programmer, but am gingerly modifying the default theme templates to fit better on small (or mobile) screens while we wait for 1.9... but I don't want to change too much by manually deleting code snippets in 100 scattered template files that I can never find twice... so if there's a "setting" to turn off those giant dots it would buy us some space and save me hours of frustration... thanks in advance!

[Ashley1]

There's no option to do this.

forumbit_depth2_forum, forumbit_depth2_cat templates:

Find and remove:

<td class="{$bgcolor}" align="center" width="1"><span class="forum_status forum_{$lightbulb['folder']} ajax_mark_read" title="{$lightbulb['altonoff']}" id="mark_read_{$forum['fid']}"></span></td>

forumbit_depth1_cat template:


Change colspan="5" to colspan="4"

<td class="thead{$expthead}" colspan="5">

Index template:

remove the legend if you have not already done so:

<dl class="forum_legend smalltext">
	<dt><span class="forum_status forum_on" title="{$lang->new_posts}"></span></dt>
	<dd>{$lang->new_posts}</dd>

	<dt><span class="forum_status forum_off" title="{$lang->no_new_posts}"></span></dt>
	<dd>{$lang->no_new_posts}</dd>

	<dt><span class="forum_status forum_offclose" title="{$lang->forum_closed}"></span></dt>
	<dd>{$lang->forum_closed}</dd>

	<dt><span class="forum_status forum_offlink" title="{$lang->forum_redirect}"></span></dt>
	<dd>{$lang->forum_redirect}</dd>
</dl>
<br class="clear" />

[gimbal]

Thanks for the quick reply. I'd post this as a feature request, but I get the feeling the MyBB team have too much pressure to finish v1.9 to even consider any new feature requests.

Our recent forum statistics show that 70% of visitors are on mobile phones, so the ability to turn off any visual clutter... and improve load times, reduce download data, etc... is a priority for us. (for example to use native System-UI fonts instead of downloading Google fonts, etc...). Thinking about it, the ability to toggle on/off the display and/or position of all kinds of things would be a great benefit, but I guess it would make programming more complicated. Thanks again.

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... and in case anyone else needs to do this, in addition to the code above, one also needs to go in to:

Forum Display Templates > forumdisplay_subforums line 6

delete:

<td class="tcat" width="2%">&nbsp;</td>