7/17 What Just Happened to the Page? Anybody Else Seeing It?

Last night my entire DG page contents came up shifted to the left side, the posts are now in a long skinny column and there is a large blank white space on the right side of the page.

The box on the left that contains the member name, date, etc. seems to have doubled in width with an excess of white space on the right of the box.

It's not us. The web developers need to retrace their steps and correct whatever was done that caused this.

Since I'm still having no luck with Screen Shots (I have the "Print Screen" key, but it doesn't seem work), I decided to take a couple of pictures of different DG pages with my camera.

The lighting probably wasn't good enough so the quality isn't great, but I thought it might be helpful since, apparently, not everyone is seeing the same thing on their screens (different browsers?).

Anyway, this is what I described in my first post.

Again, not great pictures so look at the shape of columns, etc, rather than the clarity.

nutsaboutnature — That's exactly what I began seeing last night.

Mine is much the same except the font on mine is much much smaller. Darn near tiny!

BTW- Don't know if it makes a difference…I'm on Mac, Safari.

This message was edited Jul 18, 2013 10:58 AM

I had to enlarge my font but only for the DG site because the green type is so difficult to read in the Subject column on the home page. I know that issue is on their "To Do" list but this latest layout mess is likely taking priority.

Terry, I have my basic font set at 12 for all sites. I've been using my scroll wheel to temporarily enlarge the font now just for DG when I go there, then reduce it back to 12 when I leave. When this issue is resolved I won't have to do that. It will get resolved! ;-)

Ahhh, I'm glad you mentioned the possibility that I was zoomed out. Apparently I have been, and being a 'newbie' to this computer, I guess that is something I hadn't thought of. A bit embarrassing actually…Can you sense me blushing!?!
I guess I can reset my font back down from the 13pt.

In grammar school, my knuckles would get whacked with a big ruler by the nuns if I strayed outside the lines...

The teachers also used to do that if you were left-handed (my Mom was a lefty). They'd also tie her right hand behind her back (and this was in public schools!). Boy, talk about abuse...but I digress...sorry!

Tied her right hand behind her back?

iPad mini. Yikes!

PFG,
Consider yourself fortunate. You can read the entire post without having to scroll left-right....

Oops...Thanks, Seedfork, I meant her left hand.

Terry, how do put up with us? Sometimes we're like a bunch of little kids with short attention spans.

WE LOVE YOU, TERRY AND MELODY!

AND WE KNOW YA'LL ARE WORKING HARD TO FIX ALL THIS!

HUGS!

(just keepin' it real..."

I was just asking in case I needed to clear my cache and such. (That was such an easy "fix" last time!)

Ok.

I just changed my screen resolution and, TAH DAH, I don't have to scroll LEFT-RIGHT anymore (at least it doesn't look like I have to on this page, lol!)

Text is still small, but I can do the increase text size thingy when I'm here.

HUGS!

Maybe it's just me, but I don't resent the narrow message space. I'm going to go out on a limb, and advocate for it. Newspapers put text in narrow columns because it easier to read that way.

The message source area is currently wider than it needs to be. Maybe we should fill it with really huge avatars. They could be animated GIFs, hopping all around. (grin) Just kidding.

And there is an unused light green margin to the left and a much wider margin to the right that currently seem to be just wasting computer screen area.

Maybe the forum should shrink a lot in size, so that the whole forum will fit on an iPhone or other smart phone. (grin) Semi kidding.

ZM

Zen- it fit fine on the iPhone before all this... Just FYI...

Actually, all of a sudden it doesn't fit anywhere. This is the latest screen shot. On this forum/thread I can see the whole post, but in others now I'm experiencing the cut-off that others have mentioned. And there's no way to scroll on the iPad, at least none I can find. I think this happened within the last few minutes?

Sorry, too anxious-pic didn't load...

Back to normal here.

pfg, is that still the case? We did implement a correction just now that should take care of the problems with the equal-size columns.

It seems to not to be all the forums, strangely. But this thread is still not right

My columns are still not right, can't tell the change did anything on my screen!

SPOILER ALERT!!!!! BIG OOPS!

Now the RIGHT side grey bar seems to be sitting on TOP of some of the post text...

UNDO the last thing ya'll did!

I PROMISE I won't complain about having to scroll left-right, again. Just don't hide the text...

This message was edited Jul 18, 2013 5:18 PM

Well it's like a game, half of the words on right end side missing, have to guess what dg friends are saying..I too am up for membership, hmmmm

This kind of exciting. It has changed for me, with a lot of wasted "white" space on the left of the message area. The message source area now seems more back to normal. The message text area is now wider. Not like a newspaper column, but not super wide either. Its different, but totally readable for me on Firefox.

If it was originally readable on an iPhone, the programmers should be sure that it remains readable on an iPhone. Like it or not, we seem to be in the middle of a Beta testing program.

I am only getting half a text also.....very nervewracking to be concerned about friends and not be able to find answers.

This is what I'm getting on my screen now. (see pic)

The sides are a cream color, then as you continue scrolling down, it turns black.

Odd, other forums are cut off but this one is fine.

Yes, it is odd. Perennials seems to be OK too, at least the couple of threads I looked at. But Northeast is bad, several threads...