# Looks good.... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 6, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609 "2017-09-06T05:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/61 "2017-09-06T09:41:50Z")
> [@sweat209](#): > > Can you post a screen shot. Nothing seems out of alignment on my browser. [Sure.](https://imgur.com/a/JQhhn) Notice how the stuff on the right of their names isn’t aligned on the right the same way on two different posters? ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/62 "2017-09-06T09:47:31Z")
> [@sweat209](#): > > What is this Go box, up box and menu box thing floating over the text when reading the threads? > > [https://image.ibb.co/eoG8jF/Screen\_shot\_2017\_09\_06\_at\_5\_47\_06\_AM.png](https://image.ibb.co/eoG8jF/Screen_shot_2017_09_06_at_5_47_06_AM.png) A really annoying script that lets you scroll up to the top of the page, just like the um, page up, up arrow, home button, scroll bar, mouse wheel, and on phones a flick of the finger can all already do without being driven to a third party site and running a javascript. ```auto [script type="text/javascript" src="http://arrow.scrolltotop.com/arrow79.js">[/script> ``` ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/63 "2017-09-06T09:51:09Z")
The giant fonts are uncomfortable to read on my desktop. I have to zoom out to a size that makes every other page on the web look unreadably tiny. ---
**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/64 "2017-09-06T09:51:21Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > [Sure.](https://imgur.com/a/JQhhn) > > Notice how the stuff on the right of their names isn’t aligned on the right the same way on two different posters? Okay I see the post count, join date, etc.are not aligned but all over the place now. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/65 "2017-09-06T09:52:24Z")
What’s worse is that everything seems just as hard to read as before on my tablet. Same super tiny text. Except now Firefox doesn’t want to scale it up automatically, like it did before. Because it now inks it’s a mobile friendly site. ---
**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/66 "2017-09-06T09:52:41Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > The giant fonts are uncomfortable to read on my desktop. I have to zoom out to a size that makes every other page on the web look unreadably tiny. The font seem the same to me. What browser are you using and what is your zoom level? Can you post a screen shot. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/67 "2017-09-06T09:58:01Z")
Got the font size to fix itself. May have been an issue with my browser. Jump bar gets in the way now, though. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/68 "2017-09-06T10:01:29Z")
Seems to me the theme itself is running ads. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/69 "2017-09-06T10:03:22Z")
> [@sweat209](#): > > The font seem the same to me. What browser are you using and what is your zoom level? Can you post a screen shot. [https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4405/36664520710\_6c69e1ca42\_o.jpg](https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4405/36664520710_6c69e1ca42_o.jpg) IE 11, 1920x1080, zoom 125%. If I go down to 100% the font is the same size as it was before, but any other website is uncomfortably small. And I don’t care for the join date/posts/location floating in the middle of the screen rather than being right-justified. ---
**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/70 "2017-09-06T10:04:24Z")
If you click on new posts to see all the new posts there seem to be an alignment problem!! Everything is all over the place on the right. A big mess with the alignment problem. [![](https://image.ibb.co/f6TtJa/Screen_shot_2017_09_06_at_6_11_52_AM.png) ](https://image.ibb.co/f6TtJa/Screen_shot_2017_09_06_at_6_11_52_AM.png) ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/71 "2017-09-06T10:06:45Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Seems to me the theme itself is running ads. Weird. Yeah I had one sneak through ublock origin. And it is hosted straight out of the new theme’s directory. Adding this rule manually knocked it right out though. ```auto ||boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/SultanThemeVB3R/ads/large-leaderboard.png ``` I’m tellin ya, for a young userscript guru looking to change the world, this new theme is ripe with opportunity. I’m way past my bedtime too so I’m not even going to dabble… but there is much that can be improved in this theme. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/72 "2017-09-06T10:14:04Z")
Works better on a cell phone, much, much worse on a desktop. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/73 "2017-09-06T10:24:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Looks like Windows Safe Mode. … Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/74 "2017-09-06T10:26:15Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > Yeah I had one sneak through ublock origin. And it is hosted straight out of the new theme’s directory. Adding this rule manually knocked it right out though. > > ```auto > > ||boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/SultanThemeVB3R/ads/large-leaderboard.png > > ``` > > I’m tellin ya, for a young userscript guru looking to change the world, this new theme is ripe with opportunity. I’m way past my bedtime too so I’m not even going to dabble… but there is much that can be improved in this theme. …Yikes. You can’t even click on it. It doesn’t seem to be a real SDMB ad. Hope TPTB get on at some point. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/75 "2017-09-06T11:00:37Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Works better on a cell phone, much, much worse on a desktop. Wrong! It works WORSE on my cell phone. I have a Samsung J-1 (an older, but nice small phone,which has one terrific feature: it fits in my pocket) And here’s what’s wrong : The Dope opens in a ridiculously tiny window that covers a narrow strip on the left side of my screen; about one third of the screen, with the other 2 thirds empty white space. When I do the pinching motion with my fingers, I can only get the window to expand in jumps. It expands to some sort of default dimensions,but doesn’t fill the screen, so it covers about 80% of the screen, leaving a wide white strip of emptiness down the right side. With a bit more fingering, laboriously and very slowly, I can coax the window to _approach_ the edges of the screen…but never quite get there–it still leaves some white space. But the _REALLY_ irritating thing is that no matter how I expand the window, the text is frikin’ _TRUNCATED_ on the right. Words just stop in the middle, and continue on the next line: Like thi s Almost every line in the paragraph is like that. For example: Here are a couple lines of typical text as they appear on my scr een. I can read and understand it of course , but it is a bit irritati ng. Now do you grasp what I am trying to explain? It is not nat ural to read this way!!! This version of the software **not** an upgrade. It is a downgrade. On my desktop,this website looks very amateurish and is harder to use. On my phone, it is a downright failure. If I owned a business and paid a programmer to create a website that looks like this, I would refuse to pay his fee until he corrects the errors. ---
**Author:** ![Melcalc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melcalc/32/468_2.png) [@Melcalc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melcalc)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/76 "2017-09-06T11:33:33Z")
Mobile design doesn’t work on my desktop… the font is so gargantuan… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/77 "2017-09-06T11:34:29Z")
At first I didn’t mind how it looked, but in the past few hours a lot of things are annoying me. > [@Crazyhorse](#): > > I’m tellin ya, for a young userscript guru looking to change the world, this new theme is ripe with opportunity. Only if they have someone with a decent artistic eye, especially for contemporary UX design, to guide them. No radical changes, just make it work and look nice, at least like something from the 21st Century. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/78 "2017-09-06T11:54:06Z")
Sort of like the wrong side of the tracks in Geocities. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/79 "2017-09-06T11:57:02Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > It looks like it’s just a new pre-packaged theme purchased from here. [ST vb3 Responsive](https://www.sultantheme.com/product/st-vb3-responsive/) Purchased? _Purchased?!_ ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609/80 "2017-09-06T12:12:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Purchased? > > _Purchased?!_ Yeah, if that’s what happened, it was not a wise move. There are _way_ better free themes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looks-good/795609.md?page=5)