Thanks Dries- that was the clue I needed. It is indeed still used here: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/_comment_get_display_setting But it's never referenced directly as $user->mode so the regex I tried missed it. -Peter

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert@gmail.com> To: development@drupal.org Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:15:57 +0200 Subject: Re: [development] mode column in {users}?

On 13 May 2007, at 02:26, Peter Wolanin wrote:

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Does anyone know if any core module uses the 'mode' column in the {users} table? A quick search with grep didn't turn up anything so I was thinking about using it as a flag for per-user behavior for a custom module for a little site.

It belongs to the comment module -- it used to store the comment viewing mode (i.e. threaded, flat, nested, collapsed). If that's no longer used, we can remove it from the users table.

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