[dlang.org] new forum design - preview

[Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 05:46:55 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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.

Readability is subjective and depends on the reader. Line length 
should not be the concern of the designer, but of the user who 
should have control over line length by adjusting the width of 
the browser.

>> 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.

I don't agree, I like the width of the old forum better.

I have a large monitor and don't read full screen. So my browser 
is sized comfortably. Nevertheless, the new design wastes space 
and I'm feeling cramped...