Forum front page layout

[michaelrecycles]

Minor suggestion:

The Forum section descriptions take up a lot of room, but I'd guess most users read this a couple times ever, not daily when deciding what to read.

Meanwhile, the Last Post subject line to the right is always truncated, a small obstacle in deciding which one to read.

Is this something that can be solved by adjusting the column widths?

[arebelspy]

I think it's a good idea.

The problem is that I think we'd have to find a new forum "theme"--and then, as whenever there's change, there would be an uproar from users who don't like the new look, etc.

[badbear]

Perhaps the most targeted and simple thing would be to edit the current theme to widen that column.

Personally I don't get much use out of the front page and always look at the unread posts since my last visit. Bogleheads has a pretty similar forum underneath, but its front page just show all the most recently active posts from all subforums. I kinda like that.