Someone's going to tell me to look in the right hand corner and there it is but after reading Richard's glasses post
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/o...ination-40572/
my eyes are running too much to see BUT
on some Forums there's an activity bar showing how many members and guests are currently logged on. I know each thread shows who's looking at it but not the overall site stats.
I'm pretty sure some of the forums use this 'engine' so maybe it's an option that could easily be turned on??

 

Steve it's on the forum main page right at the bottom.



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Welcome to our newest member, VBerz

 

There you go!! I knew it..........................

 

Jeesh Steve,

I'll email you some Optrex, tend to keep some in stock, these days.

Probably one of the first things I look at when I light up a browser.

 

Nice one Norri

+1 on Richards comments................One of the first things I look at

 

I never go down so low on a website. Us Steves tend to surf the high points.

 

It's one of the failings of newer screens.

They get ever wider to accomodate viewing media, so vertical space is limited. Then, web design people consider the area "above the fold" to be prime real estate for banners. The content gets pushed down the page.

But, the written word is best viewed in portrait mode. Ever wonder how much better the web would be if notebooks and computers were physically configured in portrait mode?

Instead, web designers are forced to leave all kinds of white space to the sides because wide lines of text are proven to work against comprehension.

 

I suppose monitors + TVs get wider because that's how our field of vision sees the world and they tend to be used for videos.
As you say long lines of text are hard to read but I wonder if that is because we're conditioned to reading in portrait mode or due to some physiological thing.
I spend a lot of time working on engineering drawings - what an amazing advance CAD/CAM has been - and they have always been landscape but that's a very different sort of information from text.
Anyway back to the topic.
I've looked at a couple of other sites and they display the info in the same area that you've got 'Featured Sponsors' so, like the poor, it's always with us.
It's just summary info '280 registered and 30 guests'.
I think lots of people would find that info interesting especially if, like me, their ritual is to go to 'my recent posts', 'new posts' and (in my case) 'XK8/XKR'. I never visit the 'home page'.
I'll go away now and plant some carrots.....

 

With regard to reading western languages only, it is a cognitive thing.

When reading text that has been flowed into columns and paragraphs, the brain has additional landmarks to use.

In addition, the field of visual acuity that is used for reading is also narrower than the field of vision.

When reading, the brain takes in chunks of text and suitably sized lines help the brain.

That is why long lines of unbroken text are confusing to read. There are no anchors so the brain must work much harder when determing where the next or previous chunk of text lies, and thus, where to focus.

 

I though it was just some of the posts I'd been reading.
This confirms it. My brain has officially weighed anchor.

Graham

 

Now this just goes to show that an OF occasionally Out F's the other OFs.
I just tried 'Quick Links' and there it is !
If I can help somebody ...............