Pale Moon forum

re: viewing this forum using Pale Moon 25.5.0 for Atom/WinXP, and Linux.

This might seem trivial, but I have noticed a good number of posts with many 'blank' lines at the end.

It doesn't seem to be related to whether the person ends their message with a signature or not.

The number of 'blank' lines or carriage returns varies, and the same user can have a post with none, a few, or a dozen or more blank lines.

Here is a link to a post that has somewhere around 13 blank lines at its' end:

http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php ... ead#p50922

Most of this persons' posts have none or only a few blank lines, and this occurs with multiple users posts.

Has anyone else noticed this? Are some peoples' carriage return key's sticking?

Each post consists of two parts, the actual post (text in this case) on the one side, the author info (User name, avatar, etc) on the other. if the post contains just a single line, the author info will be longer and there we be some empty space under the post.

SvenG wrote:Each post consists of two parts, the actual post (text in this case) on the one side, the author info (User name, avatar, etc) on the other. if the post contains just a single line, the author info will be longer and there we be some empty space under the post.

Thank you SvenG - I thought I was going crazy! So, it is delineated by the user info on the right. Makes perfect sense.

A one or two line response leaves a lot of blank space if there is a good sized avatar and/or other info on the right.

L Bell wrote:

SvenG wrote: A one or two line response leaves a lot of blank space if there is a good sized avatar and/or other info on the right.

If all the empty space bothers you (I know I don't like to scroll more than necessary, and I hate certain website designs because of wasted space and excessive scrolling when not necessary) you can turn off the display of avatars in the User Control Panel (located near the top left of the page) -> Board Preferences -> Edit Display Options -> Display Avatars. If I remember correctly, PHPbb offers different forum layouts, such as avatars and info appearing at the top of a post instead of the sides (I prefer the traditional info on the left side). I don't remember if the layout belongs to the theme (and surprisingly the Pale Moon forum doesn't seem to offer users a theme selection for users), so I'm not sure if that can be altered on a per-user basis. The only way you can reduce it for now is by disabling avatars.

adisib wrote:If all the empty space bothers you (I know I don't like to scroll more than necessary, and I hate certain website designs because of wasted space and excessive scrolling when not necessary) you can turn off the display of avatars in the User Control Panel (located near the top left of the page) -> Board Preferences -> Edit Display Options -> Display Avatars

That's exactly what I was looking for! Now though, I decided I like seeing the avatars when rapidly scrolling vertically, because you can visually 'zero in' on certain users and their previous posts. Probably will turn them off someday. : ) Thanks.