You may have noticed I changed the navbar at the top a bit. I've almost finished converting the navbar to divs from table tags.
In addition, for unregistered users, instead of seeing a "New Reply" button, unregistered users see a "Login to Reply" and icon which looks the same as our new login icon on the top right (but smaller).
In addition, I updated the new login form to add a "Lost Password?" link, since I am phasing out all legacy "no permission" messages and redirects.
More changes coming as I slowly get rid of all legacy table tags and update the Javascripts and DOM elements here and there.
For example, here is the "New Reply" Icon for users not logged in:
I think I will replace the user information in the upper right navbar with the user avatar and then create a sliding "onclick the avatar" panel with the same information(or maybe add more information since it will be in a side panel with more space).