@Shrimpling Yep you explained it much better than I did but that is what is happening. I’m S3 on 4.4.2 as well. I’ll add that the pages that are appearing blank also seem to be the threads that have been ported over from the old website.
Hi there,
Lot of really cool things in this new forum tool …
But … the graphical charter needs some rework. It really hurts my eyes to unfold the different categories … Some smooth color transition would be a lot better than this cocktail.
Im still learning how this forum works still havent figured out how to add friends yet.
“friending” isn’t a function here, as far as I’m aware.
Hopefully this is the right spot for this, but I’m having a Fatale of a time trying to change my Avatar. I’ve gone to preferences, clicked the pencil next to “Avatar”, but when I click “Upload Picture”…nothing happens. At all. Any workarounds?
When did you try uploading it? Ive heard it may take a little bit to show up.
Sorry, I mean, I click upload picture, and no dialogue box to choose a picture comes up. So I haven’t actually uploaded anything yet.
Can you please remove the 15 character minimum for titles? Its kind of ridiculous having to write a long sentence for a simple question or statement.
Perhaps the better idea would be making that dead space on the right not be dead space.
You know, the amount of space that the forums take at 1440x900 looks a lot better than what it looks like at 1080p. I think that they should scale the margins, if possible.
I mean, look at how little blank space there is at my resolution, and 1080p is practically standard nowadays. This makes me wonder about how bad it gets at 4K.
On the background for the Pre-sequel sub-forums, at the bottom of the image, Claptrap is wielding a Laser, but the weapon is ejecting combat rifle rounds. Oops…
Bad Gearbox! Bad!
At 4k it’s probably a brazilian landing strip…
Also the minimum 10 character per post.
I actually like the character minimum for posts. Sure it can be a bit annoying, but I think it will encourage people to maybe put an actual thought into a comment instead of say for example “no”. And thats it. Those sorts of comments bug me. They explain nothing and dont contribute much.
Mayhaps with the limit, itll get people to write out their thoughts instead.
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That makes sense.
Yup… 
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A general note on design conventions and reading patterns:
A fixed-width column is easier to navigate than an unbounded plane of horizontal text as there is less movement required by the human eye (thus resulting in less physical stress as well as an increased ability to hold context in short-term memory, as it’s all available within a narrow field of view).
Citation needed, of course, but I do a lot of work within web development and design and such, so if you have any product-related examples to the contrary beyond personal preference I’d greatly appreciate them (to compare and contrast personally, to learn from, if nothing else).
The fixed-width approach works well on most resolutions that people typically use, however much like with a mobile design required tweaked parameters, we’re slowly finding that extremely-large viewing spaces (i.e. above 1080p) that tweaks are needed at that end of the spectrum as well. This has lead to the evolution of HTML / CSS which allows for em as a unit of measurement as supposed to px (with more in the works, there are vertical-height units of measurement and similar nowadays). However, this doesn’t mean that the readable display needs to extent to 100% of the width of the page - this would result in even less readability on larger-resolution displays (presuming the physical width of the screen is also wider in comparison).
The general trend is to start on 100% of the screen at the lowest device width, and trend to an increasingly-smaller percentage of screen-width as your screen width increases - which is what this forum does. There are, however, limits, and I’m sure on a 4k resolution monitor the display of this (and most other forums) would need tweaking.
/monologue
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Bingo. That is exactly the reason Google search results are a certain width. The white space might look awkward but they did massive amount of testing to get to where they are today. A few years back they even allow a few users to use “wide” version of Google search, guess how that turned out.
Here is an excerpt from this great article http://alistapart.com/article/surveying-the-big-screen
To make reading more comfortable, a designer needs to balance the width of the text column (the measure) against the size and line-height (leading) of each line of text. Classically, an appropriate count for a single column of text is seven to 10 words (Josef Muller-Brockmann) or 45 to 75 characters (Robert Bringhurst). Taken another way, Bringhurst also notes that the measure of a conventional book column is about 30 times that of the type size used, but that this number may also range from 20 to 40 times the size of the type.
Wider columns can use more line-height to make it easier to follow the text from line to line, but too much line-height can cause lines to drift apart, resembling a college research paper. Similarly, as the text size in a column grows larger, the number of lines that can be presented vertically on the screen grows smaller, increasing the need for scrolling and breaking the reader’s immersion. Simply scaling the text for larger breakpoints is a limited solution.
There is a reason http://www.nytimes.com/, http://www.usatoday.com/, https://www.yahoo.com/, https://www.google.com and many other sites use a certain width for their text. The big companies spent a whole lot of money figuring this out, it wasn’t just some Joe Mac’s design input.
I personally think we can get away with making the left column a bit more wider here, The right column is a little too wide.
It’s not so much the left-column, it’s the left-anchor for text (as seen with GBX posts and the like, the actual middle column extends over to the right, below where our user controls sit). You could expand the width of the text column slightly, which would make the right-column a bit narrower (but there’s no need to extend all the way to the edge of the user controls).
Most sites (and Steam, as it’s basically built on Webkit) leave most of the whitespace on the right because we default to the left to read. I’d imagine on Arabic translations the whitespace is on the left, as they read from the right.
Wilhelm says … NO 