New forum layout?

[Ray.R]

From a looks perspective, I like it.  It's like a breath of fresh air.  It's spring... I like the simple NI color (blue) at the top.  Much cleaner look.

I just logged in this morning, so I have not seen any inconvenience as others have mentionned..  Up to now, this new and refreshing look gets my vote.

🙂

EDIT:  I do notice that the "N" icon to designate the NI website within the tabs has dissappeared.  I am using the latest version of Firefox.

[PaulG.]

I like the new look. Lookin' snazzy. 

[altenbach]

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GerdW wrote:

Why does the forum only use roughly half the width of the browser window? (Can somebody make a screenshot on those super high-res tabs or Retina displays when even on FullHD the site only uses 1000px width?)

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Why is your browser window roughly twice the width of the page content? 😮

Making the window so wide would make reading very difficult if the text would really go from the left edge all the way to the right edge. Do you always maximize your browser windows? I think the current maximum content width is reasonable and corresponds to my typical window size.

[GerdW]

Hi Chris,

usually I don't make the browser window full screen, it was just for demonstrating purposes.

But usually I use a window width of  ~1200-1300px (2/3 of screen) and you still have ~200px whitespace on each side. Combined with the smaller default font setting in the new forum design I first thought "Huh, what happened to the forum? Did I shrink everything on that page?"…

I appreciate the "corporate identity" bar on top of the website, no problem with it. It makes a common "look and feel" for the whole NI website. But WTH do Lithium not use the same screen space as before?

Why limit the screen width to ~1000px? Or to rephrase it: why limit it to the "corporate identity" bar width? Why not scale the bar also when the window provides more spaces?

[RavensFan]

My browser windows are generally close to full screen.  When I'm reading something on the web, I not usually trying to look at something else simultaneously.  I like having more of the text on screen at a time so I can scroll less (even see an image below a message to refer to while reading the message.)  Long lines don't bother me as much as having to scroll a lot.

[Ray.R]

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GerdW wrote:

... you still have ~200px whitespace on each side.

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Ah yes...  The white spaces on both sides....  It would be nice to keep some white space, but not fixed as you mentionned.

I usually keep my browser to 66% of the screen width, so I had not noticed that it was fixed to that size.

It doesn't bother me that much.  Just curious why they set it as a fixed width.

[RavensFan]

Here is an example of the problem with the graphics riding too high on a line.  It is forcing extra space between the lines.

How many Unread Topic to I have here?  It looks like 3 because there is the wider line break between each of the lines.  But it is actually 2, the wider line break between the first two lines that make up the first unread topic is there because the URL graphic is riding so high rather than being centered on its line like it used to be.

PS:  The problem with attaching files to the forum has returned again.  When I created a .png of this image, it wouldn't let me upload the attachment saying that it did not match its file type.  I had to resave it as a .jpg to get it to upload.

[Wolfgang]

Screen/Web design is one issue, with many valid personal tastes and opinions.

Whatever the design, readability should be more important...

So, I do not care about the huge white frame (like it or not) but complain about the space missing elsewhere, resulting in

- reduced readability (too small font size)

- overlapping text in the Profile, see attachment 

[altenbach]

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Wolfgang wrote:

So, I do not care about the huge white frame (like it or not) but complain about the space missing elsewhere, resulting in

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I agree with that, but that's not a new problem.

[Wolfgang]

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@altenbach wrote:

I agree with that, but that's not a new problem.

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I agree with that but even old problems could be solved ;-))

But now the old problem has found a new partner, the too small font size, so I took the opportunity to suggest improving on both ;-))