This is poor software craftsmanship

I have complained about this before, and my suggestion has been ignored for years...butin an era where people are really figuring our compelling user interface, while not a bug I really don't understand why FL accepts this kind of software craftsmanship. There are reasons it is harder for all the tiles to line up to be sure, but why is this considered acceptable? Is there an example of this type of presentation in anybody else's software? It happens all the time, sometimes worse than this. Yes I can keep pressing F5 until the screen loads and is less ugly. BUT IT'S UGLY. Please fix this FL, have some pride in your Home Page, the first thing users see.

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Randy W. Sims

BUT IT'S UGLY. Please fix this FL, have some pride in your Home Page

I think this might be to personal taste. I like the spaces and I liked it better when there were more of them (but perhaps not quite so big as in your image). I also liked it better when the background pattern was a shade darker. It makes it more dimensional, like the tiles have been layed out on a backboard. I LIKE those spaces.

Mike Binks

Hi Don

I seem to remember that some time ago we were told that the occasional empty space, while undesirable, if allowed ensured a much quicker start up.

Perhaps things should have moved on but I wonder if this is still the case. If so fast start beats nicety for me any day.

Actually thinking about it I don't remember seeing a blank space recently.

Don Awalt

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/948160#Comment_948160

It probably is harder to do it right, but I wonder why if you look at EVERY newspaper and magazine that has online display, why NO ONE does it this way. I have Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, and some specialty magazines, none do it. Even places like USA Today and other web sites that display articles through icons, don't permit RANDOM GAPS of RANDOM size throughout their display. Look at Tile display mode in any of the aggregators on devices, like Flipboard, Newsify, Feedly - they all have Tile mode. Do they insert random gaps of random size? Nope.

While I realize the culture here is that there will be way more people that reply and say "It's really better the way its done now sure seems to indicate there are way more people that would find fixing this a great pleasure.

I wonder why I posted this, as I know nothing will change. Maybe if I add it to UserVoice it will be fixed. But I guess since the #1 selection on UserVoice has been there for 8 years, I shouldn't hold my breath. There must be some other list this needs to get on.

Adam Borries (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/948178#Comment_948178

Don, first, I'm sorry this has been ignored. I know it has come up several times in the past, and I'm surprised to learn that there has never been a Faithlife response on it.

You have a valid complaint. We'll take it into consideration for future iterations of the Home page.

Don Awalt

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/948182#Comment_948182

That would be wonderful Adam, thank you for listening!!!

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/948178#Comment_948178

I wonder why if you look at EVERY newspaper and magazine that has online display, why NO ONE does it this way

Do you have the ability to change the layout, though?

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/948184#Comment_948184

First, if Logos can indeed fix it, great! Second, I don't have an opinion.

But third, does it depend on the newspaper strategy? WP has a fixed edition (no space blocks), and a scrolling one (also no spaceblocks). But NYT uses a different strategy, sort of combining fixed, with flowing. In that one, they have space blocks, but assign it to the left colunm.