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Devonshire  1yr ago (imgur.com)   Edited 1yr ago   2070 thread views

Way too much whitespace

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When I use new.reddit I feel like content is being hidden from me on purpose.

It is not quite as bad here. But compare the previous site with here when I collapse threads

https://imgur.com/a/r7a8dCv

Someone wrote some CSS for the Astral Codex Ten when it first launched to make it not suck so much. Can anyone do something so that

  1. if there is content I get to see it on my screen?

  2. make following threads easier than counting the number of bars on the left hand side while remembering to distinguish bars-from-threading from bars-from-blockquoting?

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The comments thread, specifically, needs a lot of work; I didn't have time to get to that. I'm hopefully going to be giving it a revamp this week.

I don't know if it sounds stupid, but shouldn't the default idea just be "exactly as it looked like on Reddit, or a close approximation"? Then carefully develop it if there's something approximating a site consensus.

I am hoping a computer person can extract the exact CSS or whatever from an old.reddit.com comments view and implement the exact same thing here. The tiny text, oceans of whitespace and unfamiliar UI widget placement here makes it difficult for me to use this forum.

Seconding! Someone please clone the UI from old.reddit.com

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