The Ghost of Christmas Future, II

[LadyV]

I like the forums how they are now. The colors are fine.

[ArvinJA]

This is maybe world's most beautiful forum theme.
http://runepoli.org/forum/

Reminds me of the old "Drakar och Demoner" (Swedish tabletop RPG) forum

[Jackard]

Here's a user-style if anyone is interested in what loftar posted. I also made some changes to how images and videos and so on are displayed, so keep that in mind.

There should be approx. 70 characters per line with this style.



EDIT:
Plugin/extension links:
Stylish for FF
Stylish for Chrome

cool thanks

e: lol painhertz dumbass sig makes his posts twice as long

[Jackard]

You could make it a bit narrower I guess if going by Jackards link that is the ideal length for readability, though in all honesty it doesn't give me a problem at all, whereas small lines of big text really is frustrating.

try to read this post from earlier in the thread to see what i mean about "unbearable"

[ArvinJA]

cool thanks

lol painhertz dumbass

Haha, you quoting a pic gave me another case I hadn't considered. Updated the userstyle

[Ninijutsu]

Here's a user-style if anyone is interested in what loftar posted. I also made some changes to how images and videos and so on are displayed, so keep that in mind.

There should be approx. 70 characters per line with this style.

EDIT:
Plugin/extension links:
Stylish for FF
Stylish for Chrome

Many thanks. The empty space is slightly distracting but by god it's worth it, so much easier to read.

[Amanda44]

You could make it a bit narrower I guess if going by Jackards link that is the ideal length for readability, though in all honesty it doesn't give me a problem at all, whereas small lines of big text really is frustrating.

try to read this post from earlier in the thread to see what i mean about "unbearable"

Yes, but how is it any better all bunched up? It doesn't alter the wall of text, it just lengthens it down-wise, it will take up the whole page! I can't see how it helps to have shorter lines, really, I'm not just being argumentative.

But I don't use my mobile for the forum, so maybe that's what I'm missing.

[ArvinJA]

The empty space is slightly distracting but by god it's worth it, so much easier to read.

Yeah it's ugly. Utilitarian quick fixes can only do so much.

[ArvinJA]

Yes, but how is it any better all bunched up? It doesn't alter the wall of text, it just lengthens it down-wise, it will take up the whole page! I can't see how it helps to have shorter lines, really, I'm not just being argumentative.

It's hard for the eye to go from line n to line n+1 if lines are too long. If there's only one or two lines, it'll still be easy (most short posts are of that length). However, when someone decides to post a full-length novel, it becomes way more straining.

Basically the idea is to reduce the eye strain per line switch, so that, regardless of the amount of lines in total, it will still be fairly easy to read.

[Jackard]

Yes, but how is it any better all bunched up? It doesn't alter the wall of text, it just lengthens it down-wise, it will take up the whole page!

So you're telling me that you read each line of the original, then compared it to the reduced length and didn't find the fix any less eyestraining or easier to follow?

Or is this still conjecture.