Question Reducing the Vertical Wasted Space

I'm not sure if this has been discussed yet, but I couldn't find anything about it, then I solved it myself, and thought I'd share my method for others who are interested.

I used the hack for moving avatars and profile info to the left of the message, as outlined here:
www.kunena.com/forum/114-hacks/20161-kun...-on-right-side#20161
But it was bugging me how much vertical space each post takes up. It makes it harder to zip through a thread, each one is so huge regardless of how much text is in it. Here's an example:



So while looking through the message.php file (at /components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/), I noticed this interesting bit of completely useless code at line 330:

It's an empty table cell right below the profile/avatar box. It just sits there and wastes however much vertical space is used up by the signature and post reply/moderation buttons. It's entirely useless, because the non-breaking space is being put there explicitly by the php code. It's not a variable. So to fix this, I made the following changes to the message.php file:

I added a rowspan option to line 62, like so:
And I commented out lines 330 to 332 like so:
This helped a fair bit, now short posts don't take up nearly as much vertical space:



Now remember, this is with the hack for putting the profile/avatar on the left. I don't know if this works the same on the standard message.php file.

There is a small bug. I have drawn it on a screenshot.



To correct, change:
In kunena.forum.css to