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I love the new design when not logged in. After logging in however... > I don't need a header to follow me down the page, in fact I'd prefer it not to. Edit:
by pavon 4y ago
I love the new design when not logged in. After logging in however...
> I don't need a header to follow me down the page, in fact I'd prefer it not to.
Edit: I wasn't logged in before, and thus wasn't shown the header you are talking about. Now that I see it, I'm with you and don't like it. Everything there could have gone in the sidebar above the ToC instead of wasting vertical space. I also dislike the extra non-persistant sidebar box shown when logged in that pushes the ToC down off the screen. That should be one side or the other, not in place of the ToC.
I find the persistent ToC to be very helpful, and the space is uses would have gone to waste anyway in full-screen mode, so it doesn't cause any harm. I don't love the menu button in half-screen (and presumably mobile) mode. I feel like they would have been better off with a full-width bar at that point since it blocks reading those top few lines anyway.
> I'm not sure what value the collapsible table of contents is.
For some articles the full multi-level ToC is longer than will fit on a single page, so you either need to allow collapsing, or scrolling of the side bar which never works well.
> I get why having a maximum line length is good for readability. My reaction to this feature is negative ...
I was nervous when I read this as well, but I like the results. They didn't over do it like so many websites to today with tiny newspaper-like columns, and will be more readable for the majority of people who never resize the browser. For me, I keep all my browser windows half-screen anyway and the redesign has smaller gutters than before, which is a win.
- ablob 4y ago>> I don't need a header to follow me down the page, in fact I'd prefer it not to. > I find the persistent ToC to be very helpful This sounds like the perfect application of customization. Why chose one, when you could have both at nearly no cost. :)
- pavon 4y agoIt is customizable. If you are logged in you can choose any of the designs they have had since the site was created, and if you don't like any of those, it lets you add your own custom CSS.