# First impressions of RForum **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Forum\ **Created:** [March 11, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-impressions-of-rforum/54652 "2006-03-11T06:23:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pmak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@pmak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pmak)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-impressions-of-rforum/54652/1 "2006-03-11T06:23:16Z")
I’ve been a long time mwForum user, a forum written in Perl that follows simplicity principles (unlike more mainstream forums such as vB, phpBB, SMF, ikon, IPB). Here’s my first impressions of RForum: - The list of forums in the left-hand side of the screen seems like a waste of screen space. It’s also hard to read because the lines are wrapped like this: Rails Engines Rails Spinoffs Rails France so it’s hard to tell where the name of one forum begins and the name of the next one ends. - The that I am currently typing in makes the screen too wide, such that a horizontal scrollbar appears in 800x600 resolution. (There’d be enough room if there wasn’t that list of forums in the left-hand side.) - A checkbox below the “Submit” button in the form I’m typing that allows me to set e-mail notification would be nice. - Why are the visited and unvisited link colors forced to be the same? This makes it harder for me to tell which topics I’ve already read. ---
**Author:** ![pmak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@pmak](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pmak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/first-impressions-of-rforum/54652/2 "2006-03-13T17:00:42Z")
Philip Mak wrote: > - The that I am currently typing in makes the screen too > wide, such that a horizontal scrollbar appears in 800x600 resolution. +1 vote for a narrower . While we’re on the topic of suggestions: I sure would like a Preview button, too.