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Yes, channel list, user list, lots of white space next to the usernames, for my taste there's also excessive spacing between the single message lines, the chann

Yes, channel list, user list, lots of white space next to the usernames, for my taste there's also excessive spacing between the single message lines, the channel topic line could take up half of the space, and so on. I know that many modern apps follow this pattern and it may have to do with making things responsive and work well across many different devices and platforms, but I simply cannot be happy with low information density. YMMV. It's good that there are so many different clients to chose from. IRC still rocks.

xPaw 6y ago
At some point if you have too little spacing, everything becomes very crowded. That being said, The Lounge supports themes, and it's trivial to reduce spacing to fit your needs. There's even a box in settings where you can put custom css directly in.
innocenat 6y ago
So you used irssi without both channel list and user list? I mean, HexChat use roughly the same space (the username part is configurable), so this is hardly a problem of 'modern UI'. (XChat, which HexChat fork from, was initially released in 1999)
- lillesvin 6y ago
  > So you used irssi without both channel list and user list? Not the guy you asked, but isn't that the default? I've always done '/names' to see who was there and '/list' to see what channels were available.
- aidenn0 6y ago
  I use weechat without the user list and with the channel list taking up exactly 1 line of space. The default theme for TheLounge is certainly more. You can hide the side-bar with the channel list by hitting the hamburger button, and hide the user list by hitting the people-icon button. That being said, I think the whitespace between the lines was the complaint (IIRC the default is a line size of 1.4 and 3px padding) With a little CSS I eliminated the WS, and here's a screenshot with the two sidebars hidden: https://imgur.com/ZRiDhJz.png https://imgur.com/ZRiDhJz.png
rascul 6y ago
The channel list can be collapsed by clicking the icon to the left of the topic. The user list can be collapsed by clicking the icon in the top right corner. There is also an area in the settings to add your own CSS rules. Just wanted to point those things out because they probably aren't immediately visible from the linked page and the screenshot.

xPaw 6y ago

At some point if you have too little spacing, everything becomes very crowded. That being said, The Lounge supports themes, and it's trivial to reduce spacing to fit your needs. There's even a box in settings where you can put custom css directly in.

innocenat 6y ago

So you used irssi without both channel list and user list? I mean, HexChat use roughly the same space (the username part is configurable), so this is hardly a problem of 'modern UI'. (XChat, which HexChat fork from, was initially released in 1999)

lillesvin 6y ago
> So you used irssi without both channel list and user list? Not the guy you asked, but isn't that the default? I've always done '/names' to see who was there and '/list' to see what channels were available.
aidenn0 6y ago
I use weechat without the user list and with the channel list taking up exactly 1 line of space. The default theme for TheLounge is certainly more. You can hide the side-bar with the channel list by hitting the hamburger button, and hide the user list by hitting the people-icon button. That being said, I think the whitespace between the lines was the complaint (IIRC the default is a line size of 1.4 and 3px padding) With a little CSS I eliminated the WS, and here's a screenshot with the two sidebars hidden: https://imgur.com/ZRiDhJz.png https://imgur.com/ZRiDhJz.png

rascul 6y ago

The channel list can be collapsed by clicking the icon to the left of the topic. The user list can be collapsed by clicking the icon in the top right corner. There is also an area in the settings to add your own CSS rules. Just wanted to point those things out because they probably aren't immediately visible from the linked page and the screenshot.