Firstly, thanks for this Support Forum and for those who take the time to resolve the questions raised.
I have recently migrated to
smfforfree from another forum host.
My forum is mainly about sharing photographs with a full text description covering what each photograph attempts to depict, and the circumstances surrounding the capture of the photograph.
Posters have always been encouraged to size their photographs to 1000pixels wide. Because this forum is mostly about photography, the posters will first re-size their photographs and
then post process them to completion. So final sharpening etc. is done to the 1000pixel wide image. Any potential for the browser to re-size the photograph is actively resisted. The forum is typically viewed using the browser's FULL SCREEN (F11) option.
Very many (the majority) of my members have monitors or laptops that are 1280 pixels wide, or less.
smfforfree has been disappointing for my usage, it does something that my last forum did not.
When the Forum User's monitor is not wide enough to display the whole width of the forum page
including the full-width 1000px photograph, it adds a horizontal scroll bar to the
bottom of the post.
The function of this scroll bar is to scroll only a portion of the forum page.
So it will preserve the padding, together with the poster's name, avatar, profile etc. - at the expense of displaying the full width of the photograph.
It is then impossible to view a full width 1000px photograph on a 1280px wide monitor!!!
Worse still, while you are using the horizontal scroll bar, the Poster's text is also horizontally scrolled. The unhappy result of this is that when you have scrolled to the right edge of the photograph, you have lost the beginning of the sentence typed above or below it.
Here is an example:
(Just drag the right edge of your window to encroach on the photograph, to demonstrate the problem I'm having.)
The right edge of this photograph has a silver car in it. While scrolling to the right edge of the photograph, see if you can read the beginning of this paragraph.