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Talk Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by emannths, Feb 22, 2012.

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  1. emannths

    emannths Initiate (0) Sep 21, 2007 Massachusetts

    As you guys tweak the forum layout, maybe see if you can reduce the amount of whitespace that short messages create. An enormous fraction of the messages will fit on about one or two lines, but the profiles take up enough space for a couple paragraphs, resulting in a lot of wasted space.

    Also allowing users to view more than 15 messages per page would be nice.
     
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  2. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    We'll look into it.

    As for the messages per page, it's defaulted at 20 actually. We're trying to refrain from reacting to every little piece of feedback at the moment, but we can look at bumping this up a bit after everything settles down.

    Cheers!
     
  3. leedorham

    leedorham Initiate (0) Apr 27, 2006 Washington

    Is the white space possibly reserved for signatures? Did you turn signatures off? because I couldn't find how to create one.
     
  4. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    Could be. And yes, signature are turned off.
     
  5. BrianTheBrewer30

    BrianTheBrewer30 Initiate (0) Nov 17, 2009 Massachusetts

    Would love to see a black background, gold border and white letters.
     
  6. TheSevenDuffs

    TheSevenDuffs Pooh-Bah (2,933) Jan 20, 2010 Canada (ON)
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    I agree about the white space. Would be nice to reduce it.
     
  7. jrnyc

    jrnyc Grand Pooh-Bah (3,012) Mar 21, 2010 New York
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Add me to the list. Too much wasted space. Also, hard to distinguish from one post to the next. The separator of posts needs to be more distinguishable.
     
  8. gueuzer

    gueuzer Initiate (0) Jun 9, 2010 Colorado
    Trader

    Plus one on this.

    And I say leave all messages on the front page. I have never understood the point of separating them per page. Needless clicking and navigating if you ask me.
     
  9. Rochefort10nh

    Rochefort10nh Pooh-Bah (1,840) Sep 30, 2005 New Hampshire
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    Totally agree about way too much white space. I'm already experiencing some eye-strain!
     
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  10. Jason

    Jason Founder (0) Aug 23, 1996 Massachusetts

    Trimmed the user info seemed to take away some of the white space. Also made viewing 30 messages per page now.
     
  11. GatorBeerNerd

    GatorBeerNerd Savant (1,019) Sep 15, 2007 Georgia

    You likely have your monitor brightness turned up very high. They tend to be set that way when they are built so that they look brighter in stores if put on display. It is overkill for a home/office setup. If you turn that down, your eyes won't get tired as quickly and the line will be much more noticeable. Granted a darker color and thicker line would help make it more noticeable as well.
     
  12. emannths

    emannths Initiate (0) Sep 21, 2007 Massachusetts

    Thanks Jason--even that small change makes a pretty big difference in the appearance.

    If possible, replacing "member" with location would be nice. The location helps a great deal for context/distribution info, and everyone is a "member." Well, almost everyone.
     
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  13. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,518) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    We considered this, but as it's a free form field, and many like to put random crap in the field, we opted not to.
     
  14. Rochefort10nh

    Rochefort10nh Pooh-Bah (1,840) Sep 30, 2005 New Hampshire
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    Count me as one who would much rather see location than random crap:wink:
     
  15. GehenHerzog

    GehenHerzog Initiate (0) Jan 24, 2010 North Carolina

    Whether people put their location or random stuff in there, I still think it's useful for it to be included...but that's just one man's opinion.

    Most people put their location, very usefull in the trading forums
     
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  16. Jeffo

    Jeffo Pooh-Bah (2,874) Sep 7, 2008 Netherlands
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    Now I get it. I missed that the free form field was turned off. No wonder I couldn't find it.

    Count me in again as someone who'd like to see location back. Very useful, especially for people outside the USA. "Member" is redundant. Even if people write "crap" in the free form field, I will know the people who are experienced traders by whether they put their location there. This is especially useful, as we don't see a joined date any more.

    I know you'll just say "click on the profile," but you know people; we only see what's conveniently put in front of our face. Putting it in front of our face makes this site more user friendly.

    Jeff
     
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  17. podunkparte

    podunkparte Initiate (0) Nov 14, 2009 Washington

    Please, keep signatures turned off. I like how this is starting to look like other forums that I belong to, but God, signatures just get out of hand.
     
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  18. BeerThursdays

    BeerThursdays Savant (1,192) Feb 28, 2010 Delaware
    Trader

    This. Between sig pics, personal advertisement (Follow me on twitter) and other random acts of pointlessness, signatures are never helpful!
     
  19. beui

    beui Aspirant (275) Nov 3, 2009 Pennsylvania

    Can you make it fit in the window so I don't have to scroll left and right?
     
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  20. UCLABrewN84

    UCLABrewN84 Initiate (0) Mar 18, 2010 California

    This sounds like an issue with your browser.
     
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