Resolved Whitespace

Description

There is a lot of whitespace with posts with the new theme.

It all comes from the messageUserInfo sidebox being a lot higher.

If we can come up with a tweaked design to reduce the size, I think it would make things a lot more usable.

Just a quick demo. I just nuked the additional text.

If we could come up with a tweaked design to show the info maybe horizontally or whatever.

Before


After

Would second this. The info should be displayed horizontally (same as old forum) to kill off white space. It would also help with post separation and visibility issues

Changed to horizontal, as per old forum, definitely cleans up some white space.

accyroy said:

Changed to horizontal, as per old forum, definitely cleans up some white space.

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hmm, I can't see it. Theme change required or is it just a cache problem?

domino said:

hmm, I can't see it. Theme change required or is it just a cache problem?

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I missed some settings, try again now.

That's it

Only other suggestion would be more of a contrast between the areas now. The title should be a little darker, same with the info panel.

But otherwise, spot on

I think it looked prettier before, but this is much more usable.

Case closed! :-D

trax said:

I think it looked prettier before, but this is much more usable.

Case closed! :-D

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Yes, better. not so much scrolling now!

Re colours, what about

.messageUserBlock .extraUserInfo {
nuke the font-size
nuke the background-color
}

.messageUserBlock {
change background to #e8e8e8
}

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Looks a bit big and uggo, but more like old theme and large enough to read (should scale fine for different resolutions). then ask for ideas from the ui peeps.

Definitely a lot better now!