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Spacing between lines

#1
Hi, I'm not sure if this is a self-made website (it appears to at least be generated from some kind of template), so idk how much freedom you have in this, but I think it would be good to slightly increase the spacing between lines in posts. Currently they are a little close together which makes posts look cramped and harder to read.

(This is an unimportant nitpick, feel free to ignore)
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#2
(02-28-2025, 08:35 AM)TokenLiberal Wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is a self-made website (it appears to at least be generated from some kind of template), so idk how much freedom you have in this, but I think it would be good to slightly increase the spacing between lines in posts. Currently they are a little close together which makes posts look cramped and harder to read.

(This is an unimportant nitpick, feel free to ignore)

I don't handle any site maintenance, but the template is MyBBS. It's been around for a long time. It's probably just about as dated as the forum format itself has become, though I don't know if it dates back to the old dial-up BBS.

I use dark mode for viewing threads and don't find the spacing problematic, so I hadn't considered it carefully before. Large paragraphs do look cramped though, now that I'm looking closely. The text editor, with the white background, is noticeably harder on my eyes too. I don't know if you use dark mode, but that may alleviate your discomfort to some degree.

Care for formatting by posters is helpful as well, though obviously beyond reader or admin control.

If it's problematic for others and more people chime in then I'm sure there are options. It may so trivial a change that it's easy to do a test run, not sure.
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#3
I do use dark mode which definitely looks better, but the line height still makes it look cramped. If you have access to the css, it should just be a matter of adding "line-height: 1.4;" in .post-body {..} and in blockquote {..}. That's significantly easier on the eyes imo.
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(02-28-2025, 01:20 PM)TokenLiberal Wrote: I do use dark mode which definitely looks better, but the line height still makes it look cramped. If you have access to the css, it should just be a matter of adding "line-height: 1.4;" in .post-body {..} and in blockquote {..}. That's significantly easier on the eyes imo.

Thanks for the suggestion.

There are a few design changes coming in the near future.
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