[dlang.org] new forum design

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 07:21:09 UTC, Puming wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 10:20:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> As the new design rolled out on dlang.org, I decided to push 
>> the changes on forum.dlang.org as well. From what I gathered 
>> from the previous feedback thread, I believe we've addressed 
>> the most stringent issues. Once again thanks to anonymous / 
>> @aG0aep6G for doing practically all the work, and to everyone 
>> who's provided feedback so far.
>
> I often found that I have to hover mouse on the title when 
> viewing "Last Post" on the forum index pages, and think that is 
> a bit annoying.
>
> The "Group" column is very wide, with not any content.
>
> So I changed the css a little and get this looking:
>
> http://imgur.com/MxJJURL
>
> Now "Last Post" column is at the center of focus and most of 
> the times the title is shown wholy.

The reason for why the widths are as they are right now:

1. The group descriptions are only shown on the index page. The 
full post titles, however, can be seen on click or hover.

2. The table and its contents needs to look fine at all window 
widths.

3. The "Last Post" column's main purpose is to see at a glance 
whether there has been any activity in the corresponding group 
since your last visit. The most important parts of it is the 
timestamp and whether the last post has been read or not.

The post shown there is not selected by some criteria of 
popularity or importance; for more high-traffic groups, it is 
essentially a random selection from the active threads.

As such, attempts to put more focus on the "Last post" column to 
me seem frankly illogical.

> As for the subtitle in "Group" columns, I think you can make it 
> a hover tip instead of directly displaying.

The group names are extremely succinct as they are. The 
descriptions are of critical importance for new visitors.