My expandy width button has vanished
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It often ends up obscuring the reply button too.
I think this is an option that should be in settings, not hovering around as a fixed element constantly (purely IMO)
Also, users are starting to associate the hamburger with "menu", not changey-widthy. It's not an expected behavior.
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Wow, nice to see this already fixed. It's no longer obscuring my reply button.
I'm curious what the reasoning was behind having this control always present. Would it not be more sensible to set a max-width on the container as the default? Edge-case users who have a strong preference for extra-wide content could still find the setting elsewhere.
Extra "position: fixed" elements can lead to slowdowns or glitches with scrolling on mobile devices (and small FPS drop on some desktop browser engines). There's also readability issues when paragraphs end up very long. It could detract from an otherwise very positive impression of the software when people hit the site with maximized browser windows.
The same issue is present with the editor, as it always scales to 100% viewport width, which is only effective up to a certain threshold before it becomes a liability.
Not trying to tear apart the layout, but I've been working in UI/Interaction Design for a long time, so can be a bit picky with these things
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Personally I always use NodeBB at a fixed layout or make my window 1280px wide, the fluid layout is cool but it makes reading posts a pain when the resolution is 2560px wide. The reason the toggle is a fixed element was to allow users to quickly switch between the two. Also it is only available on the lavender theme, vanilla is always fixed.
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@baris said:
Personally I always use NodeBB at a fixed layout or make my window 1280px wide, the fluid layout is cool but it makes reading posts a pain when the resolution is 2560px wide. The reason the toggle is a fixed element was to allow users to quickly switch between the two. Also it is only available on the lavender theme, vanilla is always fixed.
Why would they need to quickly switch between the two? I'm not convinced the average user even has a preference, they simply expect the content to be readable without requiring any thought or intervention. The fixed control only serves to add clutter/confusion in an area where they're scanning for action-items like submit or reply.
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@baris
Of course. Nothing is a definite schedule yet, but we're trying to progress as quickly as possible. We've already been developing an in-house solution that bridges our Angular/Node/Redis stuff to XenForo's backend, but I'd somehow never heard of NodeBB. It makes far more sense to migrate our data and build on NodeBB instead.We'll be sharing back everything we can. The only parts staying private will be styles/SASS and anything specific to our layout look & feel. Even then, the aim would be to release generic versions of enhancements.
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Looking forward to seeing what you got going with angular. I originally built templates.js as a competitor to existing templating frameworks
From my results I've seen that templates.js performs a ton faster than handlebars and ember, although I never benchmarked against angular. Give me a shout with your progress, I know early days we were definitely thinking about abstracting the templating engine, so if you make some progress here I'm sure there will be some people who are interested
As far as automated data-binding is concerned, both ember and angular are definitely miles ahead of templates.js, but we haven't been hurting in that department for NodeBB. Preliminary testing has shown that at least, templates.js performs faster than ember.js when it comes to that aspect
Totally biased stuff going on right now, hopefully we can get a few more people interested in the framework and then we can get some proper numbers going on
Glad to see someone trying to build something completely different 
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Performance and perceived speed is priority one for us too, so I hope Angular does well. I suspect it will. Our Node/Angular guy is very up to date with current best practices and techniques, so that should help a lot. -
great! whatever you guys can contribute back would be greatly appreciated
EDIT: If you guys need a hand anywhere, feel free to send us a message. I'd like to see NodeBB support multiple front-end frameworks, so anything I can do to bump that progress along - you know who to reach out to
