how to remove this

any help please?

Go to your ACP, click the Customization tab, under Appearance click on Themes. Your main theme is called Default and across on the right you'll see an icon that looks like

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Click that icon, of the main tabs look for

• forum
  • index
    • forumRow

Find the following

            <ul class="ipsDataItem_lastPoster ipsDataItem_withPhoto">

	                {{if $lastPost}}

	                    <li>{template="userPhoto" app="core" group="global" params="$lastPost['author'], 'tiny'"}</li>

	                    <li><a href="{$lastPost['topic_url']->setQueryString( 'do', 'getNewComment' )}" class='ipsType_break ipsContained' title='{$lastPost['topic_title']}'>{truncate="$lastPost['topic_title']" length="26"}</a></li>

	                    <li class='ipsType_blendLinks'>{lang="byline_nodate" htmlsprintf="$lastPost['author']->link()"}</li>

	                    <li class="ipsType_light"><a href='{$lastPost['topic_url']->setQueryString( 'do', 'getLastComment' )}' title='{lang="get_last_post"}' class='ipsType_blendLinks'>{datetime="$lastPost['date']"}</a></li>

	                {{else}}

	                    <li class='ipsType_light ipsResponsive_showDesktop'>{{if $forum->password}}{lang="no_forum_posts_password"}{{else}}{lang="no_forum_posts"}{{endif}}</li>

	                {{endif}}

	            </ul>

Replace with

            <ul class="ipsDataItem_lastPoster ipsDataItem_withPhoto">

	                {{if $lastPost}}

	                    <li>&nbsp;</li>

	                    <li>&nbsp;</li>

	                    <li class='ipsType_blendLinks'>&nbsp;</li>

	                    <li class="ipsType_light">&nbsp;</li>

	                {{else}}

	                    <li class='ipsType_light ipsResponsive_showDesktop'>&nbsp;</li>

	                {{endif}}

	            </ul>

Then click Save at the top.

4 hours ago, Insydius said:

 

do you know of a custom.css edit method instead?

12 minutes ago, Bossly said:

do you know of a custom.css edit method instead?

custom.css could make it just display: none; but you'd still have that big blank spot like you see in your preview.

If you edit the templates instead, you wouldn't have that. It's more ideal to edit the template in this case.