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#684656 11-Sep-2012 23:02

Change for changes sake in my opinion. Not a step forward. Too much white space at the sides of the screen.

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#684695 12-Sep-2012 05:52

Too much white space? They are probably planning to sell that as Stuff does and turn the whole page into a single horrible ad space framing the content.

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#684705 12-Sep-2012 07:59

freitasm: Too much white space? They are probably planning to sell that as Stuff does and turn the whole page into a single horrible ad space framing the content.

I agree, but accept that someone's got to pay for the content. Although I doubt 'free' newspaper websites will remain free for very much longer.

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#684708 12-Sep-2012 08:05

I am not saying there shouldn't be ads - we run ads on Geekzone otherwise the site would go under next month (and please add Geekzone to your adblocker white list folks, thanks).

My point is that this is a bit too much:

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#685083 12-Sep-2012 16:40

Yeah that's background nonsense is horrid and I adblock those myself.

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#685085 12-Sep-2012 16:44

Yeah that's one of the worst they've had in a while. Those TAB ones each week pale in comparison to this one!

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#685089 12-Sep-2012 16:49

Ragnor: Yeah that's background nonsense is horrid and I adblock those myself.

I don't mind them too much myself, and to be frank, a newspaper is far worse when it comes to adverts. The ones I do hate those are ones that obscure the news and you have to wait for them to disappear, and you can't clcik them off. Those ones deserver to be adblocked. Normally I don't use any ad blocking and click on peoples adverts.

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#685900 14-Sep-2012 09:18

Regarding the "waste of space", I think it's probably for a very good reason.

I've worked in newspapers and magazines doing design & layout for 15 years.

The reason they don't take up the whole page is the same reason we have columns in newspapers - people struggle to read stuff that straddles both borders of the page. The human eye starts "dropping off" after about 40 letters. It's why pages of books are taller than they are wide.

I prefer forums that are narrower too.

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