Is there too much space between content in or around posts?

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi all

Thanks for your thoughts so far on the Marry, snog, throw off a cliff thread. Feel free to add to it if you haven't already

Based on feedback so far we wanted to get your thoughts on post content starting with this polll. It's not big but it'll help us gauge opinion more closely.

If you haven’t joined the forum yet but want to take part in the poll you can join the forum then vote and/or reply to this thread by clicking "post reply" below.

Thanks in advance everyone

Andrea

torbrex

Is there too much space between post content?

Thick as I am, I have no idea what is meant by this question.

fermi

Voted yes, as I think there is whatever your meaning.

To clarify though, do you mean the excessive height of the forum header and toolbars? Or individual post headers/footers and signatures, etc meaning that the actual text of subsequent posts is too separated in a thread?

Sparhawke

torbrex wrote: »

Thick as I am, I have no idea what is meant by this question.

I too am confused as to what is being asked so will hold off any kind of vote for the moment.

Former_MSE_Andrea

I've changed the title a little to be clearer

Old_Wrinkly

I am assuming it means the excessive white space after the post content has finished and before the etc 'button line'. It is particularly marked when the content is just a line or two.
The gap in fermi's post above illustrates it well.
Made worse by the relatively recent addition of badges.

ETA: MSE Andrea's post just now illustrates it even better, since her post is shorter.

Sparhawke

I think there is, looking at a thread with very few posts there is an awful lot of white space under there due in part because of the fairly unnecessary blog feeds, twitter feeds, news feeds and email feeds as well as the COMPLETELY USELESS (and nonsensical positioning) tunechecker feed.

It is fine for those to be on the main forum page but they just create threads that are ridiculously long in relation to the length of posts.

I have voted 'yes'

fermi

Issues for me then:

- Forum/site header and toolbars/banners etc are too large meaning you have to scroll down nearly a whole screen height to see post content on some displays.

- The forum on default setting is too narrow meaning that posts are cramped and hard to read on reasonable wide/large displays. Forum width should adapt more to screen width as was the case before.

- Forum sidebar on the right takes up too much of the already limited amount of width. Much of it is not really necessary for the forum? Or perhaps can be presented in a form that a user can choose to hide?

- Signatures and thanks/edit/rely buttons take up too much room under posts. May be needed for BGs/MSE team perhaps, but surely can be slimmed down for most?

Old_Wrinkly

fermi wrote: »

- Signatures and thanks/edit/reply buttons take up too much room under posts. May be needed for BGs/MSE team perhaps, but surely can be slimmed down for most?

You can of course already unclick signatures on your 'visible post elements' under 'edit options' (User CP) so that sigs are not displayed.
What we need are similar opt-out boxes for much of the other clutter ...

torbrex

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

I've changed the title a little to be clearer

I must really have my holiday head on because I still am not sure what you are meaning.

Is it the space between the posts or the stuff in general on the page full of posts?

Diagrams please

torbrex

Personally I don't think there is any problems with the contents of the box that the actual posts are in it is the stuff at the top of the page and the right hand column that needs something done to simplify.
All that stuff is alright for MSE but this is the forum and if anyone wants to see all that then they can go back to the main site.