Spacing of Topics

[ramenbound]

Why the additional blank line (or half line, perhaps) on the top and bottom each topic box? Boards were so easy to scan before; the additional spacing makes it a little annoying to browse.

[Jay F]

If only they could get back the space they waste pushing Glade.

[GraydonCarter]

I am guessing:
1) more white space makes the site more visually appealing to infrequent visitors
2) fewer topics per page equals more pages to load. Increasing "page loads" as a web stat is indistinguishable from increasing the number of "visitors," which is important in selling advertising.

[kpzoo]

Or perhaps it's simply an unintended glitch, like the spacing issues that happened after the last major release?

Chow tech folks - could you chime in? I'm hoping it's an error that'll soon be fixed.

[beetlebug]

The extra spacing is bad. Not only is there more scrolling, there are less topics per page. How is this an "improvement?"

Bad, bad, bad.

[carswell]

Agreed. Less content on a given screen and harder on the eyes. Whoever is suggesting and approving these design changes is clueless when it comes to ergonomics. Yet another fail.

[carswell]

Oh, great. Now they've stolen another half inch from across the top of the window to add the glaring yellow Holiday Central banner, further reducing the truly useful content -- the topic listings -- visible on screen and further increasing the amount users have to scroll. Meanwhile, there's tons of empty space between the Discussion/Digest/Restaurants buttons and the Take Me to Chow buttons. Why not put the Holiday Central links there? FAIL!

[MplsM ary]

Agreed. Irritating to have to scroll so much now.