Suggested UX improvements for forum site

[fire219]

Let me just get this one out of the way...

That sort of thing is easy to customize on your end.  Install uBlock Origin, right click on it -> Block element -> Done!

That's the exact sort of thing that is called out on the "Doing Things That Scale" article I linked at the very top of my post. Requiring every user of the forum to do something special in order to get a good experience means that most people won't get a good experience.

Hi, forum admin here -- I've put quite a lot of time trying to refine this theme.

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In the end, the ultimate solution is to move to a different forum platform. Because trust me -- at this point I feel no love for myBB, to put it mildly. But many of the "modern" free/FOSS choices have UX choices that infuriate me (placing all threads into a giant pile and forcing everyone to use stupid filters to narrow the results down). We'd also be at the mercy of some likely dysfunctional database export tool, else lose 4 years of forum posts.

@fire219 Thank you for your response! I freely admit that when I was putting all this together, I expected that something different would have to be done for mobile. (Note that, on my phone, the current theme still doesn't work so well; the headings at the top are so tiny they're pretty much unreadable without zooming.)

The current theme definitely isn't perfect on mobile, but it's at least functional without too much frustration.

If you think it's appropriate to move to a different forum software, then I'm not going to argue.  Like I said, I had about a dozen other issues with the forum software; even if we fix the responsiveness issue, there's still everything else wrong with it.

I'm not saying it's appropriate to move to a new forum software. Just saying that it would be easier than fixing everything you mentioned in your OP. Do notice though that I did decrease the size of many of the header elements a few days ago, though.

At this point I feel like you're making a mountain out of a molehill, but if you want to explain a bit on your other issues it's possible you might change my mind.