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spamhater

Edinburghlass wrote: »

MMonkeySaving? no offence but I've reported your post to get the screen shot deleted as its really not helping the discussion on this thread.

You better get busy then - if you are planning to report every post which is "not helping" discussions on threads then that probably accounts for 75% of what is posted on MSE.

Sledge hammer to crack a nut comes to mind.

daska

Sorry, I'm hating the fixed width as well and it's not the case that I would get used to it and like it 'in time', the stretchy fit was one of the things I particularly liked about the MSE forum and I find the fixed width on other sites intensely irritating. I frequently have more than one browser or page open at once, a stretchy fit can cope with that but the fixed width is a PITA.

fermi

Having such a daftly small fixed width setting results in parts of the forum getting squashed up to ridiculous levels.

Thread title boxes for example.



Thread titles should not be spanning 3 lines.

fermi

Tixy wrote: »

Not a glitch but a bit of a pain

The masthead boxes pop up menus keep obscuring the blue crumbline (or crumb trail or whatever its called). I'm not sure there is anything that can really be changed but I'm finding it a bit of a pain as I use the crumbline all the time.

Agreed. That is a real pain.

I normally block the masthead entirely on the forum pages, as it's just too much of a nuisance and a waste of screen space. This just reinforces that decision.

Really the breadcrumb trail should reside directly above that main forum toolbar.




As it is, a slight overshoot with the mouse brings that pop-up banner down and obscures the breadcrumb trail and all the forum tools.

meher

little_monkey wrote: »

What on earth has happened to the site's layout:mad:

:rotfl: sorry :rotfl: but this really made me :rotfl:

actually it looks perfect to me this morning :snow_grin
ah yes just that my signature isn't fitting in aesthetically; other than that I cannot even imagine the older stretchy version anymore

I hope you'd offer an option to choose skin colors, set font colors, effects etc and peronalise it. I've thoroughly dismantled the windows new look, mine has a vintage look It is a hobby of mine :D

raider

Never been to this part of the forum, but just had to come and say the fixed width is RUBBISH!


Have a nice day.

starnac

Martin On a different (very small and not very important) note as the fixed width looks okay to me on my small laptop but...... have you stolen the bullet points?? They show on the draft but when I press submit they disappear

jbwod2

Brilliant change, ok so it will take some getting used to but if it's in the name of you making the site more user-friendly altogether then its defintely a good thing, MSE was looking hugely outdated but hopefully now it's going to be decluttered and reach the 21st C! :j

Saetana

I don't like the fixed width, these days most of us have widescreen monitors - mine is only a 19" one but I still have two huge white unused columns at each side of my screen. The light background colour is bad on the eyes as well. I'm changing my width now, if it changes permanently in the future then so be it, I'll just spend less time on here as its much harder to read like this.

EDIT - I've just changed to stretchy format with less brightness and it is now much easier to read the site.

meher

fermi wrote: »

Thread titles should not be spanning 3 lines.

Sure, titles shouldn't be so long. May be that should be set to 30 characters including space. Also if threads could feature date as default next to name so that there's no need for an Announcement like you see on OS; it is weird!