hello, i'm a long-ish time lurker of the site! i noticed that it's being rewritten, and figured i'd give my thoughts on a thing i noticed in the demo's layout that i feel pretty strongly about. and that is... the high amount of whitespace!
i see there's a lot more empty space around every element in the demo. this does make the site look cleaner and more modern, but it also means less information is conveyed per amount of screen space!
on the current site's homepage, on a 1366x768 monitor (the size that i use) and without touching the scrollbar, i can see the featured movie <table>, the tasvideos news <div>, and a good amount of the latest publications <div> all at once; if i scroll down some, i can then fit in the latest publications, newest submissions, and most of the newest user files/WIPs <div>s on my screen.
but in the demo, right off the bat i can only see as far as the latest publication <h2>; the featured movie and tasvideos news <div>s, by themselves, already take up almost the entire screen! and going down further, the latest publications <div> also takes up the entire screen by itself, and so on...
now, this is partially to blame for the increased font-size and line-height, which... well, i personally didn't have any problem with the values for those properties in the current site, but i do understand that the values in the demo make things easier to read. but on the other hand, there're a lot of margins and paddings that i feel are too big, such as in the news <div>; and some <br>s around the latest publications, newest submissions, etc. <div>s that i feel aren't necessary at all? it's a lot of little things that all combine to take up a lot of space.
now, to be fair, most of my problems have to do with the homepage, with the movies, articles, emulators, etc. pages looking fine (and the use of a grid-like design in the game resources page works nicely to break up the list into multiple columns, though again, way more empty space between each cell than is needed (and also, is there a specific reason why the actual display: grid was not used...?)). with that in mind, i assume that the design is still being worked on, and i probably have nothing to worry about... but these things are always annoying me in other sites, so i just wanted to make sure that you're aware of this, or that all these design decisions are being made with purpose!
uhhh yeah i think that's about it for me. i'm a big fan of the site, so i'm looking forward to the rewrite making it even better!
