As mentioned above $issticky is now $sticky_pos and stores the position of the sticky.  is_sticky_entry in User.pm has been modified to return the sticky position if the entry is a sticky and zero otherwise.  So this line now reads  $sticky_pos = $remote->is_sticky_entry( $ditemid ).  Commit: https://github.com/annariel/dw-free/commit/053cdffbb10f9548084241ddfdfbd78512ca39fb