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[Digital Jedi]

I was looking at the way our skin looks on the main forum home page, and I noticed that there appears to be a customization made there, probably many years ago by someone else, that does not gel with our new skin. I checked the default skin, and looked back at the old skins that are still in the styles menu from before I was brought in as an admin, and it looks like the change is throughout. And reverting the templates doesn't fix it at all.

Maybe I can explain it better like this. This is the default on our forum home. I've seen the default on other forums, and I know categories with subforums aren't supposed to look like this:

As a result, the skin we currently plan on using ends up looking like this.

And I know that can't be right. I want like what I see on this forum's home page:

Can anyone help, at least with the default skin?

[Digital Jedi]

Hrm, am I correct in assuming the only way to get the effect I want is to make the parent forum act as a forum, and not a category?

[Sephiroth]

Hrm, am I correct in assuming the only way to get the effect I want is to make the parent forum act as a forum, and not a category?

Yes, make it act as a forum, but don't allow posting within it. (Set Forum is Open to no, and the child forums to yes, and the child forums will allow posting, but not the root subcategory)

[Digital Jedi]

Alrighty, then. Thank you very much. Is there any way to hide the table that says "There are no posts in the forum" when you have a parent set to no posting, or do I need to ask at .org for that?