Forum Update

Former_MSE_Forum_Manager

Hi Folks,

As you've seen we've just launched a sexy new masthead at the top of the forum (catching up the homepage where we launched it on Friday - thanks for all the positive feedback).

The aim's quite simple - to make it easier to move around the MSE site. As you'll also see within the masthead, there's a new forum button, which has an added 'arrow' feature which allows you to navigate around the forum from the main navigation (disabled for mobile browsing).

To get it looking as beautiful in the forum as the main site isn't an easy task, but we think it's a lot better than the previous masthead. We may still have a few minor glitches, which have delayed it's launch slightly, but we're almost there.

Please do report any other glitches and we will work hard to get them fixed. As with all technical issues, if you could also let us know your Operating System, Browser client and version (for example Internet Explorer 8) and any other helpful information you can, this will help speed things up immensely.

The forum has gone fixed width.

As part of the change, to aid future development, the forum will now be a fixed width, rather than stretchy as it was. This will be the default for all site visitors (i.e. non logged in users), including registered users using the new style.

We have a lot of plans for the Forum this year, to give it more functions and make it much easier to use, and better looking - the stretchiness has always been a barrier to that - so this change is the first step in that.

We know that change isn't always easy in the forums, and expect there to be some concerns, but we hope you'll stick with it.

"I hate fixed width"

We would ask you to try it for a week. Yet if you really can't stomach it you can revert it - the option can be found under your User CP option > Edit Options > Scroll down to the "Miscellaneous Options" area and look for the option labelled "Forum Skin" > Change it to "New masthead, stretchy".

However it's important to be clear the future will see us developing new features and tools based on a fixed width, so no guarantees can be made for compatibility (although we try our best to make it work).

And, once more, please let us know any glitches with the new masthead