I accidentally refreshed the theme templates (and who the heck thinks that storing theme changes in the database is a good idea?) which removed the hack I made the other day to show the title of the most recent post on the forum list. While I was putting that back I decided that I should make that hack more consistent across the whole forum and added it to all the places where threads are listed.
Then I went off for a nap.
When I came back I realized how absolutely silly and redundant it was to list the title of the most recent post on the topic list. So I've just now removed it.
Anyway, that's what was bloating the topic rows. Sorry about that.
I'm working on a theme locally with Petopia colors and such, but in the meantime I've been hacking things live as they come up. This is an object lesson in why that's a bad idea.
