Forum Update

fermi

Utterly utterly dreadful. :eek:

www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/ stretchy

www.legalbeagles.info/forums/ stretchy

ubuntuforums.org stretchy

forums.digitalspy.co.uk stretchy

www.thestudentroom.co.uk stretchy

In fact, if you look at the top 10-20 vBulletin based forums, they nearly all use a template that stretches the board to full screen width.

Reason being?

vBulletin looks utterly dreadful at such a small fixed width.

OK. May work with the main site. For the forum? No.

Not in it's present form anyway.

Then you add in the sidebar on the right, which was just about OK with the old layout. With the new it takes the already inadequate space and squashes it down so that it's hard to see what on earth is going on.

Tixy

MSE_Ian wrote: »

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

Ian

Windows 7 firefox 6.

jem16

MSE_Martin wrote: »

PS we are 1000 pixels full width,

Yes but that includes the side bar on the right.

Remove that and at least the posts get the full width. A forum is nothing without its posters.

vulcan59

Fixed width is awful. Far too much wasted space each side on a 1280x1024 monitor.

jen_br

LOL Fermi I love that you go to Digital spy lol.

On a serious note some of the fonts look very condensed hard to read.

POLO_BINT

MSE_Martin wrote: »

I accept some won't like it. I would ask you to try it. Yet if you hate it choose the stretchy option. We can't say fairer than allowing you to choose.

tried it...... 10 mins was enough, very pleased that original post stated how to get the old "stretchy" pages back! Thank you for the choice though!

MSE_Martin

OK Im going to leave before I get quite frustrated with the whole things.

There is a stretchy option. We havent changed the forum colours at all (barring the masthead) so its rather strange that some are saying they don't like the stretchy colours?

Any way the message of the people who came to discuss is plain. Yet we think its the right move, and I have to make that decision. However the option is there to change back for anyone who wants.

CAN WE NOW FOCUS ON REPORTING GLITCHES PLEASE IN EITHER VERSION

arcon5

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

:rotfl::rotfl:

Now that is one wild claim!!!!

meher

from now no one will be able to post huge imposing pictures and spoil the forum experience

cistolic

I am averaging four posts per page on fixed I have half a page of masthead and toolbars and can read the first line of the first post before having to scroll down. Too bright, too much space either side. I'm sorry but fixed is not for me.