…and I won’t complain, exactly, because it doesn’t particularly bother me, but it does seem a lot of space is wasted in the left and right margins.
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And, that space can’t be “un-wasted”.
Click on the 3-bars to hide the left sidebar and you’ll notice that the post content is still the exact same width. Or, maximize your browser window and look at all the wasted space. The whole layout is fixed to a maximum width of about 715 pixels wide for the text, regardless of the size of the browser window.
I’ve tried to hunt down what CSS class sets this limit so I can modify it after the fact using Stylebot, but I haven’t found it.
It’s a very stupid design, but it works well for a forum that is primarily viewed on phones and tablets and is read as opposed to being used for support (like copying/pasting commands and output, etc.).
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Yes. Very frustratingly some sites use CSS in such a way that trying to dissect it to re-craft for your own liking becomes next to impossible. twitter and facebook both use(d) incoherent meaningless jumble of random characters for class or id names. Sometimes the style is inline without a stylesheet which then requires !important to overrrule, or just simply the design of a site is such that we are stuck with their poor choices.
Its unfortunate. So many sites favor mobile dimensions which wastes space or makes things more difficult than needed, when we desktop users know how it could be better. I frequently use stylus to cure the ills.
When I am able to “hack” on the CSS here while creating themes as I did on the old XenForo site, we will have that solved. I expect that one way or another it can be solved.
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It’d probably be worth asking on meta.discourse.org whether this is something that can be controlled in a theme–my experience has been that they’re quite helpful there.
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I’m quite certain that it should be possible. I will ask about it when I would be able to implement any answers provided, and certainly would ask if I got stuck.
In CSS itself there is a mechanism to test for viewport size. Then dependent upon that determination any of various CSS can be adjusted. One section gated by media size could have a much different appearance, possibly even different layout. A lot depends on being able to select discrete parts of the site design, layout elements. When any various thing has an id or class associated with it, this makes the process quite simple. When styles are inline and/or have no id or class associated then it can be tricky to limit your changes or properly pinpoint the parts you want to adjust.
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I would suggest splitting the App and Virtualization categories into separate ones.
Apps and Jails should be one like in the old forums
Virtualization should be it’s own category
Playing with a combination of --d-max-width and --topic-body-width seems to help, but I’m still getting some wasted space if the browser window is wide enough. Might be another class I’m missing.
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A few positives of these forums is the real-time updates when people post.
Also the fact that I don’t need to scroll through pages of forum posts. It’s all in one dynamically updated page.
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Yea, I’ve super appreciated the live indicator showing somebody is responding. So I can wait and make sure I let them post before we have a mid-post collision 
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That’s a weird response to the “type faster!” warning.
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On the negative side, animated badges are back. 
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Then, like instant messaging, everyone stops writing in order not to collide with the other… and none posts! 
Seriously, I agree discourse has a few nice features.
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Due to the “tech support” nature of this forum, an important segment of the people signing up are signing up to start a thread, post pictures and respond to questions from others…
Thus it would probably make sense to bump up a lot of the new user discourse defaults
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Whoever’s migrating the resources under the handle of @iX_Resources needs to put them in the Resources category.
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Blame @will! He put me up to it!!!
/s of course. We’ll get that sorted.
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Your tagging has improved. Thanks!
But to spare you some efforts, check the new forum first. @joeschmuck already has a thread here about his multi-report script.
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Let us know when those changes go live so we can verify that it works in the wild.
We have changes coming soon to this. Sorry about that.
To anyone making new tags… please pay attention to the established formatting. Also… someone with the power to do so, please clean the tags. ie virtualization and vms are not required… we have Apps and Virtualization as well as VM.
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I believe there is a “synonym” thingy for tags? if this wasn’t done yet I will look into doing that for this to see if that would cure this for the future.
(Holy vague references batman!)
I mean, if the tags haven’t yet been cleaned up, if there is a synonym thingy as I vaguely recall, and I might add the synonym if it is possible, and all that will hopefully cure the excess tags for the same purpose recurring.