I kind of feel bad writing this. Every1 seemingly patting on the shoulders, not a worry in the world, everything's fine... (when reading comments)
Just to give a perspective first. I'm mostly on my laptop which has a relatively small screen. Its resolution is 1366x768. As I give feedback, I try to take note of everything that stands out in any way, then I try to find reasons why.
First up, the header navigation menu. There's a whole bunch of stuff there. I don't think I've ever clicked on most of them (What's New, Members, Advertising). And it gets stuck to the screen as I scroll down... It makes me a bit uneasy. I feel like I'm forced to something, limited by it, I generally don't suffer under it, but I sure get the feeling of it (klaustrofobia). In the other hand, it's like the COD game where developers WANTed you to see all the cinematic stuff they threw most of their money and effort at, but the thing is, no user wanted that. If they wanted to watch a bloody trailer or read the illustrated lore and not play the game itself... you know? It's forced on them. Likewise here, it's got some stuff I've never needed and probably won't need when actually using the forum itself. The one thing I sometimes do need does not get stuck to the navigation menu, and that's the stuff in the corner there. It's sort of like my "identity" on this forum. I scroll down a little and now I'm a nobody... I blame the obnoxious navigation menu distracting me so heavily. It's probably just the placement that's a bit off. With this haunting navigation menu, I intuitively assume my identity stuff should follow too, but it doesn't. It's like the navigation menu is being racists! Is that sexual harrasment? etc
I've always disliked the new youtube design. You know the new one? Kinda old by now... It's got this MASSIVE spacing going on. Everything is made look super big. This picture from Walle, in my opinion, depicts two YouTube users. Massive spacing for massive fingers - Eureka! This text box here, I think, is way too big. It makes me write this way, a-wall-of-text way. It's like the
Popcorn experiment in the cinema. Some people were given big popcorn holders and some people were given smaller popcorn holders. Those who got big ones ate more. Analogously, the more room in this chat box, the more I use it. Fairly simple concept. But I'm not fat, and... I don't even know who likes the new youtube compared to the old one? There's an option to revert the changes in youtube, for those who didn't know and might want it changed.
With this wall of text, the site starts to slow down for me, so I don't feel like writing more. ^^ I presume it's not an intended counter-measurement against wall-of-texting.
I'm sure I'd snuff out much, much more if I cared enough. But I have to remind any1 reading this. This is "feedback" - people nowadays take everything they don't like or understand as insult, at best they ignore it. The intent of this wall-of-text is not to insult anyone! So take from it what you can, if you care enough. ^^