Recent forum changes are appreciated, have suggestions

[zooey]

The recent changes to collapse the announcements by default and make the Basic FAQs and Information widget much smaller are much appreciated, especially on mobile :)

 

Couple suggestions though:

• The announcements still take up an unnecessarily large amount of vertical space. They don't need to be full width, try maybe this:
  .ipsMessage {
      display: inline-block;
      width: 30%;
  }
• You should go to the first unread post in a topic by default, so a special link to do that is unnecessary. I might occasionally want to go back to earlier posts I've already read, but that's rare, and typically only comes up if I'm reading ones I *haven't* read and realize I'm missing some context or detail in earlier posts. For that to happen, I would have had to already been reading the unread msgs, so again a link to the first post isn't needed, and certainly shouldn't be the default.