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I noticed that some of the posts in the forums aren't showing the date they were posted in the upper right. Further examination revealed that the posts exhibiting this behavior are ones that the poster has been thanked for. Any chance of getting this fixed?

Thanks for pinpointing this. I have thought I was going mad looking for a way to link directly to a post before, because sometimes it just isn't there.

Yep, it's gone. Not on the OP, though.

No admin cares about this?

I do, it's annoying. I've looked into it a bit but couldn't find a fix. Can you?

I haven't installed or ran phpbb in 10 years, so I don't know any details, but:

What version of PHPBB is the forum running?

Is the thanks feature part of vanilla PHPBB, or is it added with a mod like this one? If it's a mod, is the latest version installed?

I have admin rights, but I haven't installed the thing nor have any experience with phpbb.
It's 3.0.8, and I think thanks is a mod. In the ACP, it's in listed in the .MODS tab. MOD version is empty in the Thanks setting page. I could try updating it.

I think Napkin was the one who installed or activated the Thanks function.

And no one heard from galehar ever again.

If you're messing about with it, one other minor quirk that I've been wondering about is the "rating %'" that gets applied to thanks. I'm not sure what value it adds, but for some reason the value was initially high (maybe 15-20%) and has apparently asymptotically converged on some limit near 3%. If there's an option to either make it a fixed value, or to turn off the display, I think those would both be improvements.

I suppose it could also be that the theme lacks something needed to show the date and direct link for thanked posts.

Turns out I need even more rights to update the mod or other fancy stuff. I have access to the ACP (Administrative Control Panel), but I don't have the rights to mess with the files on the server. So, I guess you'll have to bug Napkin. Also, I won't be around much for the next 3 weeks.

Dunn dunn dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.