Could I just ask if the huge, pointless margins are staying?

[MNsQueenIsDrunk]

and when are the threads we have clicked on going to turn purple as they should be?

I actually like it I think, but I NEED the purple on threads I have clicked on and the wasted space is just silly and too bright

and the fact you can't see the whole title is really ridiculous
surely noone will be liking that

trinity here btw

pleeease talk to me
I'm quite upset about this

I need to see threads I've clicked on in a different colour too. It's driving me mad.

And it's so small! I'm having to read everything really carefully. Driving me mad.

I forgot this was happening, logged on and thought "noooooo, cant cope, tis midnight and too scary"

Looks good though. Will probably look even better if I go to bed now and look tomorrow when I'm a bit more awake!

If you zoom the page (Ctrl & scroll or Ctrl & =) it will make the text bigger and get rid of the margins.

You get purple 'visited threads' if you're on the New version (well, I do anyway)

I'm ont he new version because there is no classic, it just wont work

I have done the scrolling thing but to get the margins to get slightly smaller I have text that is hilariously huge and has weird spacing inside the words

I have no purple threads at all

temporary measure trinity but 'ctl +' on your keyboard zooms in, so zoom in enough to get rid of the margins.

oh and wear sunglasses to protect yourself from the glare

I quite like it but I'm not keen on not being able to see the whole thread title on active convos. It will change how people post - I liked the long rambling thread titles, they told me enough to know whether I wanted to bother diving in.

The width of the page is set, it doesn't change when you resize the IE window. Weird. The margins will bug me, so I'm keeping the window narrow.

I don't get these margins at all really. I have a 19inch screen. On the left I have my favourites box, going from top to bottem, and then the rest of the screen with MN on.
We also have Adaware installed and trust me, I get no adverts at all.

Those of you who are complaining about the margins - do you ever go on the BBC news site? Because that has exactly the same set-up - it's so that people who are using low-resolution monitors don't lose the edges. If you have the margins you can zoom in until they disappear - and if you use Firefox 3 it will keep it that way for MN without affecting other sites you visit.
If you still have a scrolling problem even when your window is maximised you don't have the same options, as zooming out may make the text too small to read properly. On Firefox you can go into Tools-Options-Content & change the font size once you have zoomed, but if you make it too big it will start to overspill from the graphics, so you might need gto experiment a bit to get the right combination.
Changing the screen resolution to a higher one may help, but it would mean everything is smaller.

You can change your screen resolution down and then the margins disappear and it is more like the 'old school' look and feel.

To do this, right click on your desktop, go into Properties and on the last tab, adjust the slider down to 1024 * 768 or similar.

its the not collapsing inward bit thats annoying when trying to do 2 things at once, makes it v hard to read

I believe the margins are only a problem if you have a big/wide screen.

With Firefox, if you have a side bar in use and you make that wider, the margins shrink.

problem here as well

just done that onelie and it makes no difference whatsoever

still 3 inches total white bits, bloody horrible

My method works

[margin free]

although you do end up with a big sidebar

Have you tried the zooming in,trinity?

yes I've tried zooming but then all the text is big enough to read through a closed door

OK,trinity, once you have zoomed, then you can resize the text - if you are on IE, go to View-Text size & choose a smaller size, on Firefox, it's Tools-Options-Content & you can choose the size. The advantage of Firefox is that it will keep your zoom setting for that page, and that page only, whereas IE won't & you have to rezoom each time you reopen your browser. Unfortunately the text size change does seem to affect all your tabs, which is a pain.
Personally I just put up with the text being bigger - it means I can MN on the sofa & with a wireless mouse have the laptop further away, leaving room for my book in between. Of course, if I want to type I have to reach over, but I've heard there is an application I can download to turn my iPhone into a wireless keyboard.....