Forums too wide to read comfortably

• Aug 9, 2017 - 15:30
Type
musescore.org
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project

The old forums were narrower and easier to read. The new website forums appear much wider and consequently less comfortable to read.


Comments

Esp. on mobile phones (not tablets). The old site was quite small on those, some zooming and scrolling was needed, but the new site is way too big, and zooming down isn't possible

What specifically do you see to be an issue? For me, they are the width of the window, which is exactly how I'd want it - if I set my browser window to be a certain window, I don't want web sites ignoring my request and limiting content to something narrower. The new site is much more responsive for me, especially on mobile.

(Windows PC / Mozilla Firefox)

  1. The text on the user forums wraps to the side of the browser (which is very wide on a PC monitor). AFAIR, the old forums wrapped to a fixed width.
  2. If you press the reply button to a comment (or you preview your own reply to a comment), the comment is automatically wrapped to a fixed width (8¾ inches approx) and is centred in the browser window.
  3. But If you create a new thread and fill it with text, then preview, the text wraps to the side of the browser.

But the width of the browser is under your control, is it not? If you don't want wide text, why set your browser to be so wide? Why force those of us who want control over the width of our text to live with some arbitrary present width? I guess this is an approach taken by some sites, but to me it violates the original spirit of the web.

That said, having some sort of column on the right that is actually used for something (like the menu on the old site) would be a decent reason to restrict the size of the text.

We will further tweak this by introducing a right sidebar in the forum which will reduce the width of the forum content and comments. This will happen some time next week. There will be no change for small devices as the sidebar is pushed below the content.

Status (old) active closed
Status active closed

There is a sidebar in place now on forum topics which makes the forum topic itself smaller now. Let me know if this improves things.

It's better for me, but I was fine with it before as well :-). I do like how the sidebar content moves below if the window is too narrow - that would have been my concern otherwise.