Topic: Ideas for the site.

@Octane yeah I mean a more full page/screen affair.

@antdickens I don't know about 'smaller' screens but on my wide-screen laptop, the fact that the video ends up pushing the chat box down and under the video instead of being beside it creates the issue. It is annoying because the sidebar - which is 'dead' space and if you 'have' to have the info and adverts, then for live blogs, it would be much better to have these across the page - like a banner - instead of the side bar.

My screen is 'typical' in that it is the standard 16:9 ratio wide-screen so if the video is enlarged it still takes up the same 'ratio' of the screen. In a browser, with both the browsers menu/tab and or search bar at the top and the usual windows task bar across the bottom, it does make the screen seem more wide - more 16:7/8 so you lose some 'height' compared to width - but it also means that full screen content fits perfectly. Even though the video isn't full screen, the fact that its under the video means that it cannot be read where as if it was able to move to the side bar area, it would work perfectly.

I imagine it would be the same issue on my 55" TV too because the screen is the exact same ratio. It maybe not so bad because the 'smaller' video would be much larger anyway but on 'smaller' widescreen screens, it is necessary to enlarge the video otherwise its more a thumbnail. Considering the side bar is 'useless' dead space from a user perspective and any info/ads etc can be included in other ways to improve the user experience, I think it would make sense to change the format - if possible - for these specific live stream interactive pages. Its not necessary for other pages though.

I would really appreciate being able to enlarge the video and participate in the chat with the community but its difficult and end up watching on youtube and switching tabs during the 'lulls' but it would be so much easier to have both video (at a decent size) and chat accessible in one page.

@Kidfried just over 3 years for me and nearly 5000 comments on articles!! Damnnn! That's like 14 per day.

Edit: and 3300 forum posts!!

I don't think any of it has ever been constructive so apologies all 😂

@RogerRoger Just remember this- Unless you're actively trying to be a jerk, anyone's contribution is welcome here.

Been 4 years here for me too. Joined in October '14. Time flies, eh?

@RogerRoger wheyyy cheers bud! (8301!)

Can we get an option to disable ignoring users? Or at least a prompt that warns if we're about to. I ignored someone once without knowing and figured it out by being confused. I just got confused again and had to look and saw I had ignored 4 users without any idea that I had. It's honestly been an annoying feature because of it's ability sneak past you better than Ezio.

@Jaz007 What kind of device are you using? Because I just tried to ignore you and I got a prompt asking if I was sure I want to ignore you.

@Tasuki I’m using an iPhone X and using desktop mode.

@Jaz007 Ah ok I am not familiar with iPhones so I can't help you I am afraid.

@antdickens Would it be possible to have the page navigation bar at the top of a thread in the forums as well as at the bottom?

@Simon_Fitzgerald I will second this. Annoying you have scroll to the bottom of the page to get to the page numbers.

@Kidfried Thanks, I believe that should be fixed now.

@antdickens I also have noticed that when clicking on a notification where someone responded to @ me in article comments that it no longer goes straight to the comment but just to the page and I have to filter through all the comments (which are sometimes voluminous) to find what they messaged to me. It seems like it used to go straight there a while ago. The forums perform fine in this regard but the comment section notifications don’t go straight there.

This is what happens when I enlarge the video - no option to increase the height and the Chat' is also locked to a small height too

And to prove I am NOT using AdBlock

@BAMozzy haha, you've got the ad slot covered up with the adblocker dialog in your screenshot. Looks like ads aren't loading for you though, is that normal? Can you zoom out and take another screenshot?

@antdickens I get 'some' ads - whether its ALL the ads as I do get some white spaces too, I don't know but as you can see, the Adblocker is off for PushSquare. I am NOT complaining if the Ads don't show as I always ignore them anyway and will never click on one BUT I do not block to support the site as I am here so often. I block ads on youtube though so never see any ads before video's!

@BAMozzy no problem, just trying to understand why you're not seeing them... they should never be completely blank. At least a faint grey square should be present to show they are loading. Strange!

@antdickens I can't explain it either but I am sure I don't get every advert. It maybe down to firewalls, security settings, anti-virus, anti-malware and other 'constant' monitoring software I have running outside of the browser - these do block a number of Ads on the other sites I use that I also keep Ad-blocker off on. I know that because I get white blocks. I know a number of Google ads get blocked regardless of any ad-blocker because they use monitoring to pick 'appropriate' ads to my 'browsing' history and/or location but because of my security settings and permanently monitoring software that blocks things at the 'entry' point, they won't load regardless of whether I have an Adblocker on or not.

There is NO way that I would turn off these active monitoring software or adjust my security settings - especially as PushSquare is always open in a 'tab' with a lot of other tabs constantly open too - sorry. I can assure you though that I do NOT have Adblocker on - as you accused me of. AVForums is another site that I do not use Adblocker for as that prohibits me from entering any competitions - but that too has big white gaps in some areas...

@antdickens Did you perhaps change some of the settings? The expand feature didn't seem to work yesterday during Microsoft's. The screen widened, but the video stayed the same size.