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Post density is sooooo bad… 1/3 of the screen is the sidebar that I don’t want or need. It’s particularly bad on longer posts and ones with big pictures. I can fit maximum of 4 short posts on my 15″ 1440×900 screen…
The forum fonts, link color, padding, etc can al be changed in time.
Basically it just comes down to reading the mind-numbing codex, asking for help on the bbpress support forums, or paying a developer. Once you know the code, inserting it’s pretty easy.
Feel free to take a look
As for the sidebar, the majority of websites out there use some sort of sidebar. Welcome to the internet. In the old forum we had two 140px sidebars, one on each side of the forum. Now we have one that’s a little bigger than the other two combined.
It’s reasonable in my opinion and a necessary evil. It allows us to sell advertising space which keeps the site going but more importantly allows us to share our content. In the forum we can share recent main-site articles and posts with forum readers that may not have been aware of the posts. On the main-site, it allows us to share forum-realted content with readers that may not participate in the forum. It also allows us to have our social media links and cool little widgets (there’s a ton) that ultimately make the site better.
The fact that our current theme has a maximum width also sorta makes the current sidebar more obtrusive but I think folks will get used to it over time. And when we paint the walls in the future (change themes) we’ll consider themes with flexible width support.
Re the pic you posted, comparing it to what I see in the old forum, I don’t see much difference in destiny or padding on the post view.
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Chris, the forum looks great. Nice work. The img button isn’t working for me with Explorer. It did work with Chrome.
Is a poll plugin on your to-do list? Thanks.
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