WOW a lot to answer here.
Exactly is subjective.
are you talking font(size,color)
Color scheme
Image set.
If so then that only requires a custom style, using css in the style editor.
You can add as many styles as you wish and make all of them available to members to over ride the default style if they wish.
Well, ideally, yes... as close to the same as possible. Making some concessions to things like relocated functionality isn't an issue, but the one time I played with this briefly, I was able to get the simple junk like colors, font, etc... to match up quite simplistically, but getting the overall look of the site to FEEL the same wasn't so easily done, and this is why I started to think that perhaps I had to modify the templates.
I have never heard of or seen a site that uses different template files per style.
But I guess it could be done.
Neither had I, and while I don't post on here much, and didn't even register until '06, I've been a Threads user since around 2000... but, I figured that since there is a subdirectory to organize the templates into a folder named 'default', that it should be very doable to have something that
isn't the default, and it
should be easily switchable. I'll scan the WIKI to see what I can find
Anyway my suggestion would be to install v7.5.8 as a test board and add some of the other styles posted here to experiment with.
If you can achieve what you want with only style changes. You can export them.
Then when you migrate your board you can import them back.
Yeah, this is the route I first attempted a couple of year back under an older version... I just don't recall which one.
I'll definitely give it another shot - path of least resistance, and all that. I just wanted to do due diligence in case I had to go the route that I thought I might have to go.
As for support... not worried about that at all. I've been tearing apart the 3WT/UBBT code for a while