forums [Suggestion] Forum Redesign Ideas and Mock-Ups - Page 4

Your face is too close to the screen if you actually have to move your neck to read whatever screen you are looking at.

The current look (full screen) makes the most sense to me...changing it would be far too drastic.

quote Fatal Error

Your face is too close to the screen if you actually have to move your neck to read whatever screen you are looking at.

The current look (full screen) makes the most sense to me...changing it would be far too drastic.

I'm not really that close, I think it's just because my screen is pretty wide.

quote Rondo

I'd like to point I rarely have my window in full screen. Just because you have a big screen doesn't mean it has to be stretched out from end to end of the screen. For me it is also annoying to have to read so stretched out texts, but having it in fixed width loses the flexibility when resizing windows.

Good point.

quote hiigaran

if you want 12 words per line, youre dreaming. thats horrendous! looking at some of the links within your link on ideal length lines, they take up 1/4 to 1/3 of the width of my page. no thanks.

Not to that extent, no... but perhaps a compromise between readability and screen-usage?

Thinking about it, would it be possible to code some sort of switch between the two modes (fixed-width and variable) in the forum prefs? There's already several toggles which change the visuals forum-wide.

EPIC!!!!!!

totally awesome man. I love it

You ran have a min-width? It's definitely possible and should be hard the team to add in since it really should be just one extra short line within the CSS.

having only recently seen the new homepage design, i think the design on the first page is a really good concept! Bass Ultra

previous to the new homepage, i was against redesigning the forum, as there wasn't much to base it off, in terms of the homepage. i feel the new design has so many more posibilities, design-wise.

a few things re the design on the first post:

- have seen forums with the avatar of the user who created the thread in other forums, and i don't think it's all that effective. isn't that necessary when you've got the name of the user towards the right columns. users may associate certain members through their avatar, but most of the time the name is more important.

- question regarding the light blue panels placed at the left of thread 1, 4 and 5; is that to indicate there is a new unread post in that thread? if so, if that blue box was made a link to the new unread post, that would be a perfect addition. i have found that SO useful on other forums, and i really feel it would keep people around...

- agree with what Redemption said about keeping the date of the last post. if the column with the 'last reply by *new line* user' was extended to the left to include a date (eg. Apr 23, 12 10:28am) between 'reply' and 'by', i reckon that'd be the way to do it. the column looks a bit skinny as it is currently.

re: the width of the forum, i reckon a certain percentage from the edges of the width of the screen would be a good implementation. or perhaps an option for full screen viewing...

only scanned over the last few pages, so apologies if i've already brought up previously addressed issues.

am i the only one who thinks it looks tacky? no hate, but i feel like im going to a forum dedicated for neopets. i like the current look better, it's somewhat different compared with most forums ive seen.