New community platform: Excessive screen space usage in the new platform

[Kraal]

One of the complaints from the previous platform was that a lot of the space was lost.

Yet, this new platform shows the same behavior:

 

On the screen cap above, almost 1/3 of the screen is taken by the very large “Welcome” message + search box (the size of this can be divided by 2 without losing functionality, nor visibility).

The posts themselves also take a lot of height for no real reasons.

The point is, on a 32” monitor a lot of space is wasted and more information could be displayed at once.

Maybe there is a hidden setting for a compact view ? I know I wish there would be one…

 

Have a nice day !

[Lina_DABASINSKAITE]

Thanks ​@Kraal ,

Thanks for sharing this feedback! Are you using the webpage browser at 100%? 

When I set it on 100, I get this: 
 

Please confirm on your side. 
Lina

[Kraal]

Hello ​@Lina_DABASINSKAITE 

Yes, the webpage browser is set at 100%.
My configuration is (for what it’s worth) 32” monitor, 4k resolution, Firefox latest and 100% zoom.

Your screen shows exactly what I meant, a lot of the space could be reclaimed for useful data / posts.

And I mean reclaimed vertically, white space on left and right sides I can understand.

Also the first post is from ​@Amelie ACKERMANN , and the platform is embedding a thumbnail of the image in the post recap. Will it be the same for all posts with images inside ?

[waclawek.jan]

+1 to remove the unnecessary large “welcome” banner

Also, wasted space can be reduced and readibility can be simultaneously enhanced, simply by removing the explicit kerning (“letter-spacing” attribute) in the texts, leaving it to the browsers’ defaults as it should be.

JW

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on subforums too:

Half the screen is headers+vertical spacing before the first topic titles are visible, only 4 topic titles fit until you scroll down.

Some headers could be merged.

[Andrew Neil]

I’m sure the topics are far more widely spaced vertically on this forum than the previous one.

This one gets far fewer in the list per page.

 

Need to try to find some screenshots from the old forum for comparison …

 

Edit:

Found one here:

 

A big difference there is that the views/comments/likes are alongside the topic title, etc - instead of under them.

Therefore, indeed, each topic does take more vertical space in the listing than it used to - probably ~ 33% more.

[Lina_DABASINSKAITE]

Thanks for the example ​@Andrew Neil.

The previous platform had a denser view. This customization was requested after launch there as well.

Once the postlaunch phase, including urgent bug fixes and content migration, is complete, the team will address feature improvements. This item will be added to the list.

Kind regards,
Lina