[dlang.org] new forum design - preview

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 03:55:23 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 02:56:03 UTC, Vladimir 
> Panteleev wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 09:22:54 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 13 January 2016 at 06:01:41 UTC, Vladimir 
>>> Panteleev wrote:
>>>> http://beta.forum.dlang.org/
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/pull/51
>>>
>>> My only complaint is that it does not utilize the horizontal 
>>> space available, unlike the current design. Otherwise it 
>>> nicely matches the front page redesign.
>>
>> The navigation sidebar has been made narrower. How does it 
>> look now?
>>
>> We can make it a bit narrower still by removing the redundant 
>> "About this forum" link. I don't think that 100%-width is 
>> great, as above certain line length readability suffers. There 
>> is also the navigation toggle for horizontal-split.
>
> The sidebar's not my problem, it's this: 
> http://imgur.com/8Uf7Ejy
>
> There's a good 30% of the screen or more that's not being used, 
> and this is only on a 1920x1080 monitor.

Well, I would argue that this is not a problem that needs fixing. 
There is just no content to fill in that space. Making the posts 
themselves fill all available horizontal space does not help 
readability either.

> 2k and 4k must be far worse.

Using a browser in a maximized window is pointless on a 4K 
monitor. Most website simply do not have any content to fill in 
that space, so you get one of a) stuff on the left and right, and 
nothing in the middle b) absurdly long lines which are impossible 
to follow c) fixed-width website designs. I would argue that c) 
is the best option and is what we're doing here.

Here's what forum.dlang.org looks like right now on 4K:

http://dump.thecybershadow.net/727e9ee1efefe8b15e72406bea942412/000001B6.png
http://dump.thecybershadow.net/860340284b7718ef950033a28badbb22/000001B7.png