How about a longer line length in posts?
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[b]Bug:[/b] Posts on a screen that's 1920 pixels wide are only 713 pixels in width, wasting valuable real estate
[b]Expected:[/b] Available space is used to display the maximum amount of content possible
[b]Actual:[/b] Massive white borders on the left and right of the page that take up nearly two-thirds of the screenIt's 2014, last time I checked we can have different stylesheets for mobile devices and desktop machines. If you tell me you can't or won't, I will cut you. If you give me any other "reason" for wasting my screen space, I will cut you.
You fix, I no cut. Simple? Simple. We good? Good.
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Expected: Available space is used to display the maximum amount of content possible
It makes it hard to read if sentences stretch out for 1920 pixels, especially when you scan to the end of the line and your eyes have to make the horizontal jump to the start of the next line.
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It makes it hard to read if sentences stretch out for 1920 pixels, especially when you scan to the end of the line and your eyes have to make the horizontal jump to the start of the next line.
Every other forum software I've used, including Community Server, renders posts at least 1500px wide and I've never had a problem with that. But, I also don't sit 1cm away from my monitor, nor do I force everything to 1px font size; maybe I'm not a typical Discourse use case.
713px is acceptable for my 1080x1920 monitor. It's not acceptable for my 1920x1200 one.
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Every other forum software I've used, including Community Server, renders posts at least 1500px wide and I've never had a problem with that. But, I also don't sit 1cm away from my monitor, nor do I force everything to 1px font size; maybe I'm not a typical Discourse use case.
713px is acceptable for my 1080x1920 monitor. It's not acceptable for my 1920x1200 one.
So much whitespace ...
<img src="/uploads/default/2061/ea9182ab5857fed3.png" width="690" height="119" >
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It is hard to argue that that text is more readable as one line.
Regardless, this all can be changed by the powers that be on this form by amending CSS rules if they wish, there is even an admin UI for it.
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It is hard to argue that that text is more readable as one line.
Regardless, this all can be changed by the powers that be on this form by amending CSS rules if they wish, there is even an admin UI for it.
I agree, letting the text just flow across the screen is not the right way to go. But I think that there must be some way to make better use of that whitespace.
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This is one thing that makes the Front Page hard for me to read (the fact that the line length is too long); I have to resize my browser to like half screen to make it readable for me. On the redesign, it's going to be fixed width.
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If you install this user style it won't be white space anymore.
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I load up my Sega Genesis emulator as Always On Top with Mutant League Hockey, and it's just about the right size to fit in the whitespace.
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Posts on a screen that's 1920 pixels wide are only 713 pixels in width, wasting valuable real estate
You are not seriously suggesting lines that go the entire width of your monitor? That shit is unreadable. I'm on 1200px wide, and zoomed in by a tap (Firefox), and full-width lines would be terrible to read.
Try zooming.
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On the redesign, it's going to be fixed width.
Is there a way to make it have a maximum width rather than a fixed one? I really don't like all those sites that force me to make my browser a bit wider just because the designer felt they had to.
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Is there a way to make it have a maximum width rather than a fixed one?
You could try with something like
.post-column { min-width: 713px; max-with: 1500px; width: 75%;
The again, CSS is... well, CSS. It's possible, but it will most likely involve tons of fiddling.
Note: This doesn't really work. Well, it does, but it breaks the right popup thing (the one with reply in new topic etc.), but I don't have the time to play with it atm. You can put it in the style editor in dev tools and play with it but expect breakage.
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Careful, I am switching those classes around at the minute to rip out some Bootstrap nonsense. It'll be just plain
topic-body
in the next deploy vstopic-body post-column
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would like to have a word with you
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Now now, be fair, in Bootstrap 3 it's
col-xs-n
col-sm-n
col-md-n
andcol-lg-n
, for xtra small (mobile), small (tablet), medium (small desktop) and large (large desktop) screens.Also,
col-md-offset-n
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Filed under: <div class="visible-md col-md-6 col-md-offset-3 visible-lg col-lg-4 col-lg-offset-2"> would like a word with you"
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Is there a way to make it have a maximum width rather than a fixed one? I really don't like all those sites that force me to make my browser a bit wider just because the designer felt they had to.
Oh yeah that's what I meant. Max-width instead of width, plus there's some "responsive styling" I guess, such that it will work nicely on a mobile.
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Maybe you should just make it an infinitely horizontally scrolling set of columns.
Filed under: how do i make a sarcastic punctuation character, how do i make a very large sarcastic punctuation character
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Filed under: how do i make a sarcastic punctuation character, how do i make a very large sarcastic punctuation character
Please figure it out before Discourse gets another core feature.
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We're actually already on the long end of optimal line length if any sort of readability research is to be considered.
We're about 100 characters per line... in print it's studied a bit more extensively and settles around 50-60 characters, but you typically read print a bit closer to your face... so it's natural that a screen that's further away can have a longer line length.
It's basically a field of view limit coming from the fact that as predators we have a really sharp central field of view and really shitty peripheral vision.
http://usabilitynews.org/the-effects-of-line-length-on-reading-online-news/
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060729105544/psychology/images/e/eb/Dyson,M_C(2004).pdf
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp
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Fluffy kittens?
This thread is now about fluffy kittens.
Filed under: Fluffy kittens love threads., Personally, I'm opposed to them.
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If you install this user style it won't be white space anymore.
Hey look, Shitcourse broke quoting again. WHERE ARE YOUR ITALICS NOW?
You are not seriously suggesting lines that go the entire width of your monitor?
No, I'm not. What I am suggesting is that instead of Discourse being dumb and only using 30% of my monitor's width, it becomes less dumb and uses something like 60%. I know I could do this with dumb CSS hacks, but I really don't want to do dumb CSS hacks to make dumb software less dumb.
Even dumber, the reply textarea + reply preview textarea together are wider than the content. Even even dumber, hiding the reply preview makes the reply textarea wider than the page content. This thing isn't even consistently dumb, WHY.
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*Must not affirm Godwin's law...*
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GODDAMN NAZI KITTENS EVERYWHERE!
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GODDAMN NAZI KITTENS EVERYWHERE!
Well, it makes a change from moaning about InterDisCourse
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No, I'm not. What I am suggesting is that instead of Discourse being dumb and only using 30% of my monitor's width, it becomes less dumb and uses something like 60%.
I think that's close enough, though.
I take it you're very practiced at keeping your eyes on-track while reading a loooooooong line?