Forum Update

VfM4meplse

Fixed mine to new masthead, stretchy - much better! (Was tempted to revert to the old though).

prog324

Also, Facebook is a narrow site?

jem16

MSEMartin wrote: »

What like Facebook, mumsnet (its smaller than ours), netmums, Av forums (slightly wider).

Thank you Martin.

I use AVForums regularly but don't use the others.

However AVForums works fine as they don't have that extra bar on the right that MSE has. This means that MSE posts are squashed into a smaller space than AVForums posts.

Former_MSE_Ian

Tixy wrote: »

When I 'go advanced' on a reply the options/selections are all over the place

Please can you I ask what operating system and browser you are using. So that we can try and replicate this problem. Thanks

Ian

wnoktnwbr

pr!!!24 wrote: »

Also, Facebook is a narrow site?

Facebook is designed for skimming through lots of small pieces of content fast, whereas a forum the focus is on reading each post. Individual posts are the focus on a forum and should be given the "prime real estate".

shammyjack

Well done MSE ?

Following YAHOO and GOOGLE you force a so called improvement on your users !

IMHO its pure crap and even the Old Style in options has changed and doesn't display correctly any-more. Well using CHROME it dosen't !

God my eyes hurt ! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Tixy

When I try to see who has thanked a post (clicking on the usual show me button), the page simply jumps to the top of the page, and the thanked bit does not expand. Windows 7, firefox 6.

John_Gray

Am I alone in finding the implied threat that "you're going to have to put up with fixed-width eventually" rather ominous?

Its not an implied threat. Its that we'll be optomising new features for the main fixed width version. We're not going to be getting rid of the stretchy.

For heavens sake folks, this is a free forum that you use, we work very hard on making it work. The agressive nature of some of the responses (not this one) are really a little unfair.

problemcashback

well had just read the latest blog and thought good that people trust MSE, when I saw the forum and this thread thought that aint gonna last. Not techy enough to know what all of the width means, just that we dont like it even if those in MSE towers do also why does the place need to be so bright there cant be any need for that surely, put the forum page at the end of heathrow airport and the planes will know where to land

http://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2012/01/23/%E2%80%9Cmoneysavingexpert-a-stronger-brand-than-itunes%E2%80%9D/

MSE_Martin

wnoktnwbr wrote: »

As a side note I run a forum larger than MSE that is fixed width and we removed our side bar to give posts a full 1000px display and we've never had complaints

Wow - we're the 7th biggest social network in the UK, so what do you run - its only the likes of twitter and facebook that come ahead?

PS we are 1000 pixels full width, the next stage of the design is to look at the overall shape of the forum. This is just a masthead chance