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March 18, 2009
Question

Why not a flex-width forum?

  • March 18, 2009
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I see it is easily possible--just look at Jive's forum!

Some major issue I see with the 700px or so size you're currently using.
* Code blocks are practically useless for indented code.
* Put it into threaded mode and have a good laugh at the 250px wide stuff columns by the time you get down to a 4th reply.
* You're already losing 240px to the annoying "Actions" right-hand column. People with theater-proportion screens could at least ameliorate this issue slightly.
* I believe you're using a large font than they are the Jive site, so your content already flows longer.
* It's frustrating to see 300-400px of dead space that I could really be using just sitting to the right of the forum.
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    March 18, 2009
    > Put it into threaded mode and have a good laugh at the 250px wide stuff columns by the time you get down to a 4th reply.

    Threaded view is only viable for short threads - I think people will have problems if they leave that as their default. If you bring up a thread with hundreds or even thousands of posts, you have to wait quite a while for it to display the lot - then you have to scroll...
    March 18, 2009
    ^ Whoops, wrong account. Meant to post from this one!

    Also, the forum width is 970 not 700... not sure WTH I was thinking there...

    But still, even this elderly Sony G520 CRT I'm typing on supports 1280 width, so that's 310 more px I could be seeing in the middle.

    Also, cross-reference this excellent post by Bob Peters about screen size in the new forums.