I have a 1600x900 monitor on a windows 7 PC, and what I'm seeing with the new format is completely unacceptable. Roughly 50% of the space on my computer screen has nothing on it but filler, and that's scrolled down in the middle of a forum post!
The text is smaller on posts than it used to be. This adds more to the impression that everything is crammed into the center of the screen. The lack of contrast between the contents of a post and the outside makes it feel like everything runs together. The blue sidebar attracts attention and feels like it's supposed to be important, but is blank.
Looking at this image, the brown navigation bar that tells you where in the forums you are is not apparent that it lets you move around the site. It looks like an information bar, something to ignore. There's more wasted space above the "Search Minecraft Forums" bar, and the twitter, facebook, Youtule(sic) boxes look cramped and shrunk too much.
The feedback button on the bottom right is missing with adblock (possibly noscript, but I do have scripts allowed on here), and quite frankly the huge banner ad on top of the screen makes me think it's an unprofessional site out to make money at the expense of readability.
Overall the site needs more contrast to make things more readable and it needs to use more than 50% of the screen on all computers, not just mobile devices.
I have the same exact aspect ratio/resolution and the sides only take up about 25 percent of the space. Unless, of course, that is just me having this monitor for my whole life.
Actually, it's because most websites are designed with mobile in mind, which is stupid considering most sites have their own dedicated mobile apps or versions of the site... Well I guess you could say its good for 4:3 monitors, but who still uses those?
Actually, it's because most websites are designed with mobile in mind, which is stupid considering most sites have their own dedicated mobile apps or versions of the site... Well I guess you could say its good for 4:3 monitors, but who still uses those?
It was the same way with the old site, which pretty much everyone can agree was not for mobile of any kind.
It probably has to do with compatibility with different browsers and monitors. But still, they should provide means to resize the forum so as not to waste space.
This is true, sites need to be able to adapt to any monitor size and ratio. Or rather they need to be able to scale to anything in real time. Google is trying to fix this with their new Material Design, but that won't take affect for every site.
The text is smaller on posts than it used to be. This adds more to the impression that everything is crammed into the center of the screen. The lack of contrast between the contents of a post and the outside makes it feel like everything runs together. The blue sidebar attracts attention and feels like it's supposed to be important, but is blank.
Looking at this image, the brown navigation bar that tells you where in the forums you are is not apparent that it lets you move around the site. It looks like an information bar, something to ignore. There's more wasted space above the "Search Minecraft Forums" bar, and the twitter, facebook, Youtule(sic) boxes look cramped and shrunk too much.
The feedback button on the bottom right is missing with adblock (possibly noscript, but I do have scripts allowed on here), and quite frankly the huge banner ad on top of the screen makes me think it's an unprofessional site out to make money at the expense of readability.
Overall the site needs more contrast to make things more readable and it needs to use more than 50% of the screen on all computers, not just mobile devices.
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To make space for the banner ads, of course.
Actually, it's because most websites are designed with mobile in mind, which is stupid considering most sites have their own dedicated mobile apps or versions of the site... Well I guess you could say its good for 4:3 monitors, but who still uses those?
It was the same way with the old site, which pretty much everyone can agree was not for mobile of any kind.
This is true, sites need to be able to adapt to any monitor size and ratio. Or rather they need to be able to scale to anything in real time. Google is trying to fix this with their new Material Design, but that won't take affect for every site.