I just tried all of those themes on a 4K monitor and no luck. The “full width” theme moves the sidebar all the way to the left but unfortunately the central content section does not expand to fill the empty space.
However, the “WWW” theme is incredibly information-dense and I bet some people would like that layout. It looks a lot like old Reddit.
IdahoFarmer
Your BLF screen shot seems to be 3397x1712
And the CPF screen shot seems to be 1920x968
What happens when you resize your window to 1920 width?
This may be the way Discourse resized them on upload.
Clicking on the three horizontal bars on the upper left opens the left column.
All the Best,
Jeff
Just tried on a 4K monitor.
Yep. blank space. But I don’t usually use a forum full width. Text lines too long for my eyes.
I’ve gotta say, a recent pet peeve of mine is the use of the term “boomer” to describe anyone and anything older than the person saying the word. Boomers were born between 1946 – 1964. It’s not a general term that means “older than me.”
Yeah I can click cntrl+ and magnify my screen but it wont hold that setting if I leave and worse it only shows me one person response not the whole page.
The whole thing looks like it was done by a 1st semester html coder. Its not neat, clean, organized and well formatted. Ive been using the web since acoustic modems and this just doesnt work. Its not good.
What about PHBbb. It adjusts to what you are using and fill the whole screen. Nice, neat , clean and well formatted.
Language evolves. The term has largely come to refer to a type of mindset or a pattern of behavior, often associated with but not limited to a specific generation. It’s a collection of mostly-negative traits which tend to occur together. In particular, it often implies confrontational behavior, unreasonable expectations, a resistance to change, a lack of empathy, and prioritizing self above social responsibility. It’s also traditionally called the “me” generation due to the typical focus on self, but of course there are people with these traits in every generation… just usually not so many.
I zoomed until it looks good. works for me. I actually like the discourse-classic theme. The alternating light/darker background behind posts looks like old BLF. I like it a lot better than plain white.
Well, that just sounds like a mixture of confirmation bias and ageism to me.
I actually take it as a compliment. We are the last educated (not indoctrinated) reason with logic (not hyper-emotionalism) non-clown-world people left. We refuse to be sheep! We see right through the “agenda” being forced down our throats.
I wear it as a badge of honor!
“Language evolves. The term has largely come to refer to a type of mindset or a pattern of behavior, often associated with but not limited to a specific generation. It’s a collection of mostly-negative traits which tend to occur together. In particular, it often implies confrontational behavior, unreasonable expectations, a resistance to change, a lack of empathy, and prioritizing self above social responsibility. It’s also traditionally called the “me” generation due to the typical focus on self, but of course there are people with these traits in every generation… just usually not so many.”
Berkeley?
@idahofarmer Thanks for the screenshot. Even with the sidebar hidden it still looks like there is something wonky with your browser’s DPI setting or zoom level. Here’s what I see:
@ToyKeeper The one theme that they have on Discourse Meta that doesn’t seem to be available is the “full-width” one. I did already apply a theme tweak here to make it a lot wider (compare this one with the base “Sam’s Simple Theme” on Discourse Meta), but I can’t figure out the CSS to shrink the extreme left and right white border, which I would also like to reduce to the bare minimum. You’re a lot better than me with CSS, would you have any tips? I think there’s probably a very simple CSS snippet I can apply to our theme overrides to improve that complaint which I also share.
I’d say the generational labels sub-topic here isn’t turning out well, so let’s drop it please.
Bahhhh
Sheep analogy, overused as well.
And I’m technically a Boomer.
Don’t give a flyin’ burrito about being called one, water off a ducks back.
Back on topic, in full screen mode and 150% center fills the whole screen,
Will adapt to this new layout, just takes a little time/error/rinse repeat 
I haven’t really dived into it. Each web framework has its own abstractions, and customizing it typically requires learning that first. Perhaps this is a case where it’s easy to do, or perhaps it goes against the grain in ways which are difficult to bypass.
I don’t know if/when I’ll have the spoons to attempt a Discourse theme, but if I do, it’ll probably be a bit lighter and lower-contrast than the “Dark” theme, and have significantly more decorations around page elements, to help make them visually distinct from each other. Like, a box around each comment instead of just a subtle horizontal line. Probably less whitespace in general too, to make information more dense.
But this is just a “maybe someday”. For now, I’m still pretty clueless about Discourse themes.
Yep, I understand. I’m referring to just one-liner CSS tweaks on top of the current theme. Discourse has a mechanism and UI for adding custom HTML elements and/or Javascript and/or CSS to override what the base theme defines. I’ve simply been using the Firefox HTML inspector to get the CSS rules and classes and then change it, here’s just one of the many examples:
.d-header-icons .d-icon {
color: #deddda !important;
}
We did spend some time … like a few months, using and commenting on a beta site before the switch over.
People were invited to help. Though I did a little bit, I am not sure how many people actually took the time to help in the process.
Regardless, I am here for the content. I can read what I want. I am learning the tricks for navigation. I am not going anywhere.
That being said, there IS a bunch of the screen that is not being used. I am on a PC with 42" screen… so yeah, huge areas of nothing. But then, that is not the part I am reading. So…
But I used green screens or black and white terminal screens for years. Bottom line is being able to read the data.
The desktop global max width is set to 1110 pixels so there is a lot white space for 1440p and 4k displays. Changing this value stretches/shrinks the whitespace.
:root {
–d-max-width: 1110px;
}
Thanks @Chazzy
Ooh…
With Stylus, you can change --d-max-width to whatever you want on BLF (or probably any site) with this:
(Just change 1110 to whatever width you want.)
:root {
--d-max-width: 1110px;
}
This might come in handy for me with websites that are ridiculously narrow (not BLF in my case).
What’s going on here?
Check out Redflagdeals, they redesigne and stick to the organically design cues while adding ads.
2/10 Habits can be relearn but it’s not user friendly. It creates more steps to do the same thing. This is not a redesign. It’s a demolition disguised as a redesign.
Try going to the No Stupid Question and go back “20 pages”
With posts about bringing back the old site, and this comment about old screens, I HAD to know. What if we took it all the way back?
… this is a real browser on a DOS-themed screen on the actual BLF site.
Sometimes I do code and email this way, because it’s right for the mood sometimes, and because old-style “single-tasking” interfaces can make it easier to focus. Like, here’s part of Anduril’s code for the lockout mode, in vim, in an egregiously retro terminal:
