New look forum again?

Tixy

Angry_Bear wrote: »

1. It take too many clicks to get to the user control panel. At the moment I click "User CP" and immediately see if any of the threads I've subscribed to have unread messages. Now I have to click on my avator, to get a drop down then click on profile, then on view settings. *Grr*

Do you know you can get straight to the User Control Panel using the forum jump at the top of any forum page in the new style (well its at the top right of the page on my laptop, towards the top and in the centre of my mobile).

Mandelbrot

Angry_Bear wrote: »

I hate hate hate the automatic re-sizing according to the window size. I like to look at the forum using various screen sizes (PC, laptop, tablet and phone) and don't mind scrolling from side to side but hate that the sizes change - meaning if you have a small window you get a word or two of a message on a line, and the rest of the screen real estate used up by side banners. I know some forums have a user option to fix the width, can we at least have that please?

dontone wrote: »

I've gone back to the old green forum, and it seems to have gotten narrower. I now have 2 massive white borders on either side. I can't put it back to 'normal' IYSWIM.
Does anybody know how I can return it back to it's original state please.

Don't know if it is quite what you are looking for (and don't know whether it will work for you or not - that seems to be a bit of 'pot luck' lately ).
And you might have tried it already without success.

But, if you think it's worth a try ...

Go into User CP
then Edit Options (under Settings & Options on left hand side)
then Forum Skin (under Miscellaneous Options - on main part of screen; you need to scroll right down to the bottom)
and then try out the various options there.

(Remember to click the Save Changes button.)

Tixy

I know this is a minor thing but I really dislike the collage of photos on the new style site on the Marriage, Relationship, Families board when on a desktop. I think it really odd having stock pics of a family eating water melon etc.
I don't like the equivalent pictures on most of the other boards either (like that bright pink pig) but the marriage one seems the most weird.

And I think these picture slightly disguise the +New Thread option at the top right of each board next to the board name.

I'd be interested to know if the site has seen a reduction or increase in new joiners to the forum and new threads being created by those new members since the switch over. Some of the boards I frequent have definitely felt quieter.

fermi

ripplyuk wrote: »

Yes,

That is the way the older version has always displayed on tablet for me.

The white down the RHS being where it's scrolled down beyond the height of the sidebar that side.

ripplyuk

fermi wrote: »

That is the way the older version has always displayed on tablet for me.
The white down the RHS being where it's scrolled down beyond the height of the sidebar that side.

Mine has always filled the screen. This happened as soon as the new design came in.

dontone

ripplyuk wrote: »

Yes,

I'm seeing this. I'm not using a tablet, I always use a desktop and now it's all narrow down the middle. yuk!! I have to point out, Ripply's version doesn't show it, but I have a border on the left as well as on the right. Where as before it was stretched across the screen IYSWIM.
Just tried Mandelbrot's suggestion (thank you btw) and the forum page is back to normal, but clicking this thread has caused the page to balloon to twice the size. If I use any of the other options, it makes no difference.
Not happy atm.

Mandelbrot

fermi wrote: »

That is the way the older version has always displayed on tablet for me.

The white down the RHS being where it's scrolled down beyond the height of the sidebar that side.

Aren't there two bits of white down the RHS?
The first is the blank continuation of the sidebar that contains the MSE News/Blog stuff. That is normal (though irritating - why a sidebar at all?).
The second is just wasted space because the thing hasn't sized itself properly. I am assuming that is what is at issue here.

Mandelbrot

dontone wrote: »

clicking this thread has caused the page to balloon to twice the size.

That will be due to one of the 'screen pics', presumably.
(I get certain effects when I quote/post.)
The system no longer seems to handle them quite as well as it used to.
A bit annoying, but most of the time threads with pics seem OK.

fermi

Mandelbrot wrote: »

Aren't there two bits of white down the RHS?

Not on the tablet I'm using. Not on the default zoom anyway.

White sidebar has always come to edge of screen. No spare space showing if you are scrolled up to it. The width of the sidebar show if you are not.

fermi

dontone wrote: »

I'm seeing this. I'm not using a tablet, I always use a desktop and now it's all narrow down the middle. yuk!! I have to point out, Ripply's version doesn't show it, but I have a border on the left as well as on the right. Where as before it was stretched across the screen IYSWIM.

The default view was changed to that narrow version quite a while back. Going to the new forum and back must have reset it for you.

Setting in the UserCP can take you back to a full width one. or a stylish userscript is on the userstyles site that make the change as well.



with a stretchy option.

Or https://userstyles.org/styles/59885/moneysavingexpert-com-forums-max-width