As far as I'm aware - and Rick, please bear in mind that I jumped ship at yonder place some time ago so have no current involvement in such things - then if the
default theme is changed in settings to subsilver2 and the other options removed, that
might allow readers to sign in by clicking "post reply" and being directed, post-sign in, to the thread they were reading prior to deciding to log in. Obviously, I can't test this theory as, whenever I log out, the default theme is all that's available when signing back in, you'd need to experiment and I'm sure we'd all tolerate a little fiddling in the wider interests of the success of this new forum.
There may be other patches available that would address this and allow users to keep that annoying, default theme that puts the avatars on the right, best advice I can offer is to visit PHPBB's own admins' forum and ask the question there. They're pretty good at offering support,
even if they don't always grasp the concept of sending their updates to the current forum owner instead of the previous one, who's no longer concerned with all of that faffing about....
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