These have really gotten out of hand if you ask me. They look nice (also the Jet Set Radio stuff like the one I have right now), but I think they're way too big considering there's still an avatar below it. And some moderators have an additional moderator logo, which fucks up the layout entirely. Just look at this screenshot: I'm browsing the web at a resolution of 1440x900 and it's still this much of a dead space every time someone any moderator posts something. If you accept suggestions, then I'd say a small status bar like over at Digit Press or even like here up to 3000 (the little pacman stuff) is ideal.
I have no issue with it, but then again my screen is much larger than yours. I'd say it's a cool thing, but maybe downsizing them would not only increase the space to read, but also bump the page load times down a bit (if you've got slow internet).
I don't have slow internet, but it's still a pain to scroll down that much. Regardless of how big your screen is, the ratio is still messed up if only like 1/20 of a posting is actual text. This post I'm just writing is also way too long, the 4000-image (as cool as it looks) is just gigantic. Look at how much blank space there is. That's just not ideal!
I have noticed that other forums have smaller images, or they don't have post count images, and so there is more text per page when compared to here. Quite frankly I'm so used to it, it doesn't really bother me. In fact I'm hoping to get a larger post count image, but that'll take me some time. Also- of course you don't have slow internet- you've got UBC's astronomically high speed internet. I go there with a laptop every now and again and feed off the network to grab as many torrents as possible. It's really damn fast.
AVE just use adblock plus and block the images. Your resolution is really low and I'm not going to gimp the site for people with stone age screen resolutions. Even with no images, vbulletin 4 includes a huge amount of space. There's not much I can say except for the few people who can't handle it to block the images permanently.
Assembler, your post took an entire page. Its madness. Adblocked your avatars and its 1/3 of the size. Clearly its not just vb4's white space.
even at that res, its going to take up 90% of the screen. Also, you are designing your site for a res that only 5% of the internet uses? http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php As we all know, its your site and I can just adblock the images. But you seem to be making some weird design/implementation choices recently.
lol, i guess. maybe cut off the top of pikachu's head a little bit or something. personally i don't care. it's just funny. i'm using a dated setup as it is. everything i have is from 2006. xD
I'm just using my laptop, it's a 2011 macbook, not that stoneage. And what does it matter anyway? Even if the resolution is higher, that just means that the bis empty space is a bit smaller in reality, but in proportion to the posting it's still the same ratio of at least 90% blank space. Just look at graciano's screenshot, I think no one can say that this looks like it couldn't be any better.
Happening to me as well: I don't see it at such a big problem really, I mean he doesn't post that often for it to bother me..
that seems a hell of a resolution, i guess its a sign of the times and how behind them i really am lol
What happened to the guideline for avatar size limits? I guess they went out the window? I think some are far too big and don't help any. I think for me the layout is always messed up, especially the members details under the avatars. I think also the new pictures that appear before you log in convey a matter of urgency in which people should register and I think it is too much, and to me it just feels cheap somehow.
Thats weird, I run on the same resolution and the empty space is minimal, nothing like that screen shot you posted.
They don't bother me, but on my phone the registration notification takes up like a quarter of the screen since it doesn't scale down.
Last night he changed his avatar, as well as the his admin avatar. there isn't as much white space anymore.