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Ok. Now i've got some food down me (mm.... blood sugar) time for an actual constructive post.
Primary concerns:
Massive reduction in workable screen space. A good 1/4 of my screen is now taken by stickies, something i couldn't care less about as i could probably recite most of them by heart..
Disparity in text sizes used. The size of the text for the stickies means they're all across multiple lines, but the size of the text used for the "Posted by..." line is almost unreadable if the user is using smaller font sizes (a couple of moapers reduced their font size to stop the sticky section taking up so much space)
Now virtually no white space. Posts butt right up against each other, there is nearly no space at the edges and there is a column of very bright colours down the right. Makes for a very crowded design. For those of you with selective memory, here's a comparison screenshot. Just look how much less stuff there is on the left.
Removal of "last post at... by..." section.
Change in font? I don't know what it is, but i'm finding it physically difficult to read the titles of topics on the front page of the forums. They're blending into each other and becoming hard to read, i'm having to concentrate on specific titles. Making browsing the forums into a chore.
Now, i can understand why you've done this - to try and tidy the forums up. But really, all i think it's done has crowded what was otherwise a perfectly acceptable design. If you absolutely must remove the stickies from the forums, can you at least remove that awful sidebar from the actual topic viewing screen and just leave it on the forum screen?
ed: also. since stickying, this thread has received alot less attention than the non-sticky duplicate. imo, stickies are alot less visible as they just blend into the background. I think everyone's just blocking out the entire right side of the forum
[Edited on 01.30.2008 12:20 PM PST]