I am on the 14-day trial for the Pro version and I really like Discourse so far, with one really frustrating exception. The text width in topics seems far too narrow. For the subject of the forums, large text width is necessary. I am used to older phpBB forums where you get the full width of the web…

Hi there, have you seen: [image] Discourse Full-width component Theme component information_source Summary Make Discourse occupy the full browser width eyeglasses Preview preview hammer_and_wrench Repository Full-width component question Install Guide Ho…

Usually the width of the text area isn’t increased because long lines are harder to read [image] What's the function/use of hiding the sidebar on large screens if it does not extend the main content area? There’s often not much benefit to more horizontal content on the screen, at one point it st…

[image] Steve_Walmsley: The text width in topics seems far too narrow. For the subject of the forums, large text width is necessary. I politely disagree: https://medium.com/@wblekhoa/talk-aboutthe-optimal-length-of-text-in-ux-ui-525e689f0b71 [image] Readability: The Optimal Line Le…

It isn’t really a case of optimal width. Part of the forum is after action reports for a game. That includes text summaries of ship designs such as the one below. For someone playing the game, they understand every section. When the lines wrap, it becomes unreadable. Discourse also seems to remove w…

Thanks - I’ll read up on those options

[image] Steve_Walmsley: When the lines wrap, it becomes unreadable. Discourse also seems to remove white space, which makes it harder to read. Then maybe formatted text is what you need. That doesn’t remove spaces. Something like this ``` Something like this ```

Thanks. I’m not used to CSS or HTML (C++/C# Windows is my background), so its mostly a case of not realising what I don’t know :slight_smile:

[image] Moin: That doesn’t remove spaces. And also scrolls sideways instead of wrapping :+1: .

For anyone interested, making the default text size smaller also resolves most of the problem.

Gotcha, yeah, that usecase does make sense. Glad the formatted text sorts you out.

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) February 24, 2026, 10:43am 2

Hi there, have you seen:

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