Can the forums be "widened"?

[Zarathustra]

Hey,

Quick question.

I have seen other Xenforo implementations where the forum will scale to the full width of the browser window. On TheFPSReview Forums it scales up to a certain width and then stops.

Here is an extreme example if I go full screen at 4k (which I never do, just for illustration)




I often browse with a window snapped to the side, and scaled down to 80% or 90% as I find most fonts online these days in the mobile era to be comically large.

When I do it makes very poor use of my screen real estate and looks like this:



If this is just a simple settings change, I feel it could benefit those of us with larger screens, without harming anyone else, as it appears to just scale down on smaller screens anyway.

Thoughts?

 

[Grimlakin]

This user makes a fair point... just saying.

 

[Brian_B]

Some people like their forums fat and wide.

I'm not judging.

 

[Zarathustra]

Some people like their forums fat and wide.

I'm not judging.

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[David_Schroth]

It appears the answer is probably with a css modification. Will investigate

 

[DAPUNISHER]

On AT they use it for all of the sidebar crap an ads.

 

[Skillz]

Hold shift + ctrl and scroll up (or down) with your mouse wheel. You can set thefps back to 100% (or whatever you want) and it wont effect other sites you visit.

 

[Zarathustra]

Hold shift + ctrl and scroll up (or down) with your mouse wheel. You can set thefps back to 100% (or whatever you want) and it wont effect other sites you visit.

The whole point is that I want to run it smaller

 

[David_Schroth]

Really hitting a vibe code wall here. So close, yet so far....

 

[Zarathustra]

Really hitting a vibe code wall here. So close, yet so far....

That's a shame, but I really appreciate you trying.

I see so many of these Xenforo forum implementations that operate that way, I just assumed it was a simple option.

My apologies for requesting something a little bigger than expected

 

[David_Schroth]

That's a shame, but I really appreciate you trying.

I see so many of these Xenforo forum implementations that operate that way, I just assumed it was a simple option.

My apologies for requesting something a little bigger than expected

It's more the approach I took of trying to figure out a custom plugin to enable the functionality without knowing what I was doing. I'll see about copying the theme and making it selectable that way...

 

[igor_kavinski]

I'll see about copying the theme and making it selectable that way...

If you are still trying to figure a way out, let me know and I can ask a webdev friend. He's not a regular/paid developer but he comes up with crazy solutions. Like I needed some data scraped from a web page on a regular basis and he just created a JS bookmarklet that works in Firefox and it just works so elegantly that I am forever indebted to him. Saved me tons of hours and it still comes in handy few times a month. If I had done it my way (parsing the HTML file with C/C++ or using something like GreaseMonkey), I would have wasted a good bit of my sanity on the endeavor.

 

[David_Schroth]

That's a shame, but I really appreciate you trying.

I see so many of these Xenforo forum implementations that operate that way, I just assumed it was a simple option.

My apologies for requesting something a little bigger than expected

If you are still trying to figure a way out, let me know and I can ask a webdev friend. He's not a regular/paid developer but he comes up with crazy solutions. Like I needed some data scraped from a web page on a regular basis and he just created a JS bookmarklet that works in Firefox and it just works so elegantly that I am forever indebted to him. Saved me tons of hours and it still comes in handy few times a month. If I had done it my way (parsing the HTML file with C/C++ or using something like GreaseMonkey), I would have wasted a good bit of my sanity on the endeavor.

Thanks for the nudge - I got distracted by a squirrel and didn't go back to figure it out.

Wide mode is now available as a theme selection (bottom left hand corner, select "The FPS Review - Wide Mode" as your theme and it should do as requested.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Wide mode is now available as a theme selection (bottom left hand corner, select "The FPS Review - Wide Mode" as your theme and it should do as requested.

Light theme - Wide please, if you don't mind terribly

 

[David_Schroth]

Light theme - Wide please, if you don't mind terribly

Done

 

[Zarathustra]

Thanks for the nudge - I got distracted by a squirrel and didn't go back to figure it out.

Wide mode is now available as a theme selection (bottom left hand corner, select "The FPS Review - Wide Mode" as your theme and it should do as requested.

Thais is awesome! Thank you!

Light theme - Wide please, if you don't mind terribly

Wow! I didn't know anyone actually still used light modes on computers!

 

[igor_kavinski]

Wow! I didn't know anyone actually still used light modes on computers!

Light mode just seems more "colorful".