Suggestion to Increase Forum Width

[ArashDev]

hi

First of all, I would like to thank you for creating an environment like this for developers to connect and share their knowledge.

I would like to make a suggestion regarding the forum's width, and if possible, increase it beyond 65 percent.

 

thanks!

[JoelR]

On 10/28/2023 at 1:21 PM, ArashDev said:

hi

First of all, I would like to thank you for creating an environment like this for developers to connect and share their knowledge.

I would like to make a suggestion regarding the forum's width, and if possible, increase it beyond 65 percent.

 

thanks!

Hi @ArashDev and welcome to the community

It's interesting you bring up this suggestion. It's a relatively new change that I made to the community, and it's something that I am trialing for the time being.  Do you have a specific reason for a larger width?

My reasoning is that the desktop versions of the largest social platforms in the world (Facebook / Reddit / Twitter) are actually very narrow, to mimic the mobile experience.  The more that I investigate behavioral design, the more that I realize we have a tendency to over-stuff, over-design, and over-fill the screen space.  

[opentype]

As a typographer, I’m a big fan of limiting the column width to create good text line lengths. Full-width forums are awful. 

But yeah, here it’s goes way too far in the other direction now. 

In comparision: Facebook, Twitter, Invisioneer on desktop.

The main content area for text and images is too narrow.

On my own communities I have:

Quote

.ipsLayout_container {
max-width: 1300px;
}

 Which in comparison looks like this:

My users love it. 

[Maxius]

Oh yeah it's way to narrow now.