I'm thinking that we may, indeed, be able to offer a few options for the forum layout. I'll see what I can do to set one up that's somewhat similar the previous version.
For you naysayers - Other than general familiarity, what specifically do you miss from the old layout and what specifically do you dislike about the new one?
So far, one common point I'm hearing is that the new layout is too wide and that there are readability issues. Kind of funny... making the layout wider was the most common point of feedback we used to get on the old layout. I'll see if I can tune it a bit. There's room for compromise, methinks.
1. The new font Verdana is harder to read than older Tahoma font - even Calibri 11 is better than this new font.
2. Way too long sentence lines, one looses track going from left to way out to exreme tright.
3. The text inside the
Typing Box is much larger than text outside the box. If one wants to
read and respond to another post, eyes have to constantly readjust to two widely different sizes - one inside the box and one outside. Not a smooth transition.
4. Copy a post, and paste it on a new page (of word document), and try to read - see how horrible is the layout. The name of user, symbol, karma, mail icon, other icons, each takes up one line then alternating space, so the whole page from top to bottom is filled with these symbols from top to bottom before reaching body of text ! Once you reach text, the user name is out of view, so you lose the relationship between author and at least first few lines of the post.
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