As always when a GUI is changed, some users are happy, some not so much.
In recent days I noticed several changes in the forum look, apparently testing and/or answering to requests.
Some users mentioned low resolution problems, and some actually requested wider lines for 16:9 or 16:10 monitors.
Although changing the look/skin to some other alternative could satisfy the needs for frequent users, I wonder why the default forum skin can't be used "as before", in the sense of adapting itself to the adequate width.
For example, wider monitors can "read" shorter lines, as well as "low" resolutions monitors can. This is not valid in the opposite case.
I would like you (Avast forum maintainers) to consider to set the default skin so to be "adequate" for "most" users.
It may be useful to make a "wider monitor" skin, or something similar, for frequent users with such characteristics, leaving the default forum skin to be "readable" and "usable" for "most" users (lower AND higher resolution; or 4:3 AND 16:10 monitors).
Ideally, the skin should adapt itself according to the resolution, but I don't know if this is currently possible.
The current worst case presents itself with the current default being adequate "only" for wider monitors and higher resolutions, while the older monitors and lower resolutions can't even see the entire width of the writing box (where we write the messages).
About the "lines" of the board (where we see the list of topics), I've been seeing little changes during the last few days. I guess some users requested wider lines, and some others requested shorter ones.
I would like to request to find an intermediate (which I indeed have seen "intermittently"). The older width of the topic titles was probably "too short", and the current probably is "too wide" for "old" resolutions.
Once again, the principle should be IMO that the default skin should cover the wider range of users.
To be clear, when I say "the most users" or "the wider range of users", I do NOT mean that the default skin should be adequate for the "most frequent monitor's configurations/resolutions". What I mean is that it should cover "the most different cases" (most amount of users), which means having the minimum denominator covered.
For "specific" monitor configurations, there could be those special skins available, besides the DEFAULT forum skin.
Please find the way to dynamically adapt the default skin according to the monitor of each user, or make the default skin to cover "the broader or cases".
TIA.