I want more words and less background .... can I change this?

[Fab Foodie]

OK, as the forum's resident misery, Im not appreciating the changes, but there you go.
In particular the resolution is like reading a book for the partially sighted, I get posts with lots of 'background' and not much to read. The text is large enough to be read in the next county and so you don't get a lot of readable post per screen.
I don't know if any of this makes sense to you, but then most of the changes here make no sense to me either.
Cheers
FF.

 

[ianrauk]

You can change the resolution.
Hold down the ctrl key and use the roller on your mouse to make it smaller 9or even larger)

 

[Fab Foodie]

Thanks Ian, that's better to a point, but in terms of words/area there is still far too much space on the screen. It's horribly space inneficient. Now I get 3 posts of very few lines of text that are now very small and a whole lot of screen of no value.
It needs compacting.

 

[dellzeqq]

I'm with FF on this. My screen resolution is at max, but I'm still looking at a load of white screen and precious few words.

The problem is, I think, the avatar surround

 

[Mozzy]

Oh fine here on a giant sized Apple Mac. Shall see what it is like tonight when I use a Samsung 10.5" netbook armed with Windoze.

Mozzy

 

[Shaun]

All posts have a minimum height of 100 pixels.

 

[Shaun]

^^ So in my example above, even though it is only one line it still takes up a specific minimum.

We can review the layout stuff once the core settings are dealt with.

I'm not averse to changing things a bit if they will make an overall improvement for everyone, but play with it for a few weeks so we can decide properly which bits might need a bit of work.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[wiggydiggy]

OK, as the forum's resident misery, Im not appreciating the changes, but there you go.
In particular the resolution is like reading a book for the partially sighted, I get posts with lots of 'background' and not much to read. The text is large enough to be read in the next county and so you don't get a lot of readable post per screen.
I don't know if any of this makes sense to you, but then most of the changes here make no sense to me either.
Cheers
FF.

+1 From me.

I'm a massive fan of having the smallest possible 'footprint' per post as possible, Admins answered elsewhere Avatars cant currently be turned off, guess its a case of 'wait and see' whilst the changes bed in before improvements can be made?

 

[snorri]

Now I get 3 posts of very few lines of text that are now very small and a whole lot of screen of no value.

......and those of us with five lines of text below every message..........

 

[ColinJ]

......and those of us with five lines of text below every message..........

7 or 8 if you include the blank lines! You can turn signature viewing off globally in your user account preferences.

 

[dellzeqq]

in fairness, those of us who were invited to look at the thing pre-launch might have spotted this....

 

[Norm]

You could try changing to the mobile skin and not showing the signatures. That's pretty successful at minimising the white space, IMO.

 

[snorri]

Thanks to ColinJ and Norm re the tip to not show signatures.

 

[Shaun]

Hmmm ... just noticed that there's about 15px padding between the bottom of the avatar and the username - that can go - I'll add that to the to-do list ...

 

[MacB]

Yep, another one here finding too much space and I'd already turned off sigs and knew how to alter resolution anyway. If I have the text at comfortable reading size then I don't get more than two posts in view at any time. For example Shaun, your post above appears for me as one and a bit lines of text, which I like the sizing and spacing. Then there's like 5/6 empty lines, then the line saying it's you that's posted and day and time, followed by functions like 'report' and 'top'. Then I seem to have another 8 or so empty lines, plus the gargantuan Avatar box on the left.

That all translates to about 90% empty space from a viewing perspective