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.