This re-configuaration applied today IS some way better, but there is still way too much wasted space, and a too small area to write it.

I think you suppose that most users are using phones, but actually, being a more            ‘ mature’ user profile, I suspect many are using laptops and large screens which accomodate a bigger body of text. Your developers have not understood the function of the forum, and the sort of people who use it.

Scrunching contibutions into a small area, to both write in and view, discourages more lenghty, informative posts, which have been the raison-de-etre of this board, and the key to its popularity. If people no longer chose to post  substantial,  informative  and engaging contribtions, then this forum has no future. 

Any chance of dialling down the yellow banner, it looks garish and unsophisticated ?

Finally, for now, can we go to last post in a thread without scrolling first to the bottom, then selecting final post.

Thanks for making a start on salvaging this ‘situation’.