# Beckdawreks bad, bad, bad new board experience **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876 "2020-06-22T17:32:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/21 "2020-06-22T22:56:06Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > I want a way to make the avatars bigger. I can’t make 'em out half the time. > > Or maybe I should get a bigger monitor. I’m on a large monitor and the avatars are still too tiny for my eyes. I have to lean over and peer at the screen from way too close in order to see what they are. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/22 "2020-06-22T22:57:27Z")
I wish they’d close up all the white space between posts. Makes it hard to go back and reread an older post. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/23 "2020-06-22T23:08:23Z")
Your avatar is very pretty, **EmilyG** and such lovely colors! Is it from a painting? Currently for **Beckster** I see a beer bottle cap. Is that your “new” one? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/24 "2020-06-22T23:10:42Z")
Thank you! It’s a building in Montreal, Palais des congres it’s called. It’s from a photo of mine. I’ve been told the colours show up better on the new board. And yes, it really is that colourful in real life! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/25 "2020-06-22T23:32:20Z")
puuurrrrrdy ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/26 "2020-06-22T23:52:16Z")
[Gollum]We hates the white space, Precious[/Gollum] ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/27 "2020-06-23T00:17:41Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > I want a way to make the avatars bigger. I can’t make 'em out half the time. > > Or maybe I should get a bigger monitor. When we first got avatars I wanted them to be as small as possible but I got used to them and now I wish these avatars were as big as the old board (but no bigger). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/28 "2020-06-23T01:29:05Z")
Nice to see some things never change. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/29 "2020-06-23T01:43:28Z")
Click on them. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/30 "2020-06-23T01:49:16Z")
Yes my new avatar. If that didn’t work I was going for your street sign you sent me. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/31 "2020-06-23T02:11:24Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Click on them. Thanks! ETA: Still don’t know what dogbutler’s is. But maybe that’s the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/32 "2020-06-23T02:25:08Z")
Ol’ Granny Hawkins is hangin’ in.😋 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/33 "2020-06-23T11:44:54Z")
Everyone is carping on the white space, yet no one is commenting on the 25% of the screen that is wasted on a time line on the right? My first thought on the new boards is that it was designed by committee, and said committee had never seen a message board… 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/34 "2020-06-23T12:34:39Z")
I think my main gripe is that the thread list doesn’t show who the OP is. Very inconvenient, as there are some folks I just don’t read. But beyond that, I don’t hate the new format. If it had been this way from the start, we’d all be used to it by now, right? In the grand scheme of things, it’s no biggie. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/35 "2020-06-23T12:35:31Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Everyone is carping on the white space, yet no one is commenting on the 25% of the screen that is wasted on a time line on the right? > > My first thought on the new boards is that it was designed by committee, and said committee had never seen a message board… People have mentioned it. I too dislike it. You could fit more content in that wasted space so you wouldn’t have to scroll as much. With regard to the white space, I’ve found Discourse Classic theme sets the background to grey, including the formerly white space between posts, so it’s easy again to tell where posts end and begin. I still don’t like the fact that the white is so white, and am hoping for a slightly but not very much darker theme to come along. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/36 "2020-06-23T13:15:26Z")
The “Straight Dope Light” and “Straight Dope Dark” themes (I’m now using the latter) do away with the wasted space on the left. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I think my main gripe is that the thread list doesn’t show who the OP is. It does show that, but you have to work a little. 🙂 There’s a row of avatar icons after the thread title – the first one is the OP and the last is the most recent poster. Hover on them to see who they are. Hover on the “Activity” item (the last column) and it will show you the date and time of the first and last posts. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/37 "2020-06-23T13:24:00Z")
Thank you! I obviously haven’t played enough with the various options and hovers. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/38 "2020-06-23T15:39:26Z")
Right now, I’m thrilled with the new board, if only because the new configuration allows me to get around my employer’s firewall so I can post again from work. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/39 "2020-06-23T15:57:47Z")
Just click on the avatar and it gets bigger. Or is that view not big enough? Dennis ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876/40 "2020-06-23T16:19:59Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > The “Straight Dope Light” and “Straight Dope Dark” themes (I’m now using the latter) do away with the wasted space on the left. Not for me they don’t. Still large amounts of wasted space on both left and right. Mac desktop, Firefox. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beckdawreks-bad-bad-bad-new-board-experience/911876.md?page=3)