# Is this off the shelf forum the best you could do?

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-this-off-the-shelf-forum-the-best-you-could-do/5508>\
**Category:** Forum Feedback & Requests\
**Created:** [June 21, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-this-off-the-shelf-forum-the-best-you-could-do/5508 "2017-06-21T21:12:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Axes\_blade](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/axes_blade/32/2234_2.png) [@Axes\_blade](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Axes_blade)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-this-off-the-shelf-forum-the-best-you-could-do/5508/1 "2017-06-21T21:12:27Z")

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This is clearly a [https://www.discourse.org](https://www.discourse.org) forum. and not even a good one.

Boring, poorly formatted and just wastes a lot of space.

Advise try again, if I was a new play and looked at this I would this it a bad fan made site.

Do better CCP please.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Ronuken](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/steve_ronuken/32/373894_2.png) [@Steve\_Ronuken](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Steve_Ronuken)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-this-off-the-shelf-forum-the-best-you-could-do/5508/2 "2017-06-21T21:19:28Z")

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have you looked at the alternate theme which is wider?

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**Author:** ![Morrigan\_Laima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/morrigan_laima/32/12340_2.png) [@Morrigan\_Laima](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Morrigan_Laima)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-this-off-the-shelf-forum-the-best-you-could-do/5508/3 "2017-06-21T21:24:53Z")

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It’s actually the most advanced forum software they could have chosen, but a lot of the features are less than obvious.

> **[Discourse features](https://www.discourse.org/features.html)**
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> Discover features your community will love.

A few of the highlights: It’s easier on the moderators, it has thread cross-referencing features that are nonexistent in other forums, it has an amazing summary mode for extracting the gems out of threadnaughts, it has great embedding support, and a lot of other little things that take time to to find and get used to, but actually make for a better discussion platform, like @mentions.

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**Author:** ![SIEGE\_RED](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/siege_red/32/25316_2.png) [@SIEGE\_RED](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/SIEGE_RED)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-this-off-the-shelf-forum-the-best-you-could-do/5508/4 "2017-06-21T21:31:22Z")

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And yet it’s the most commonly phased out supplier …

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**Author:** ![Robert\_O\_brian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/robert_o_brian/32/17034_2.png) [@Robert\_O\_brian](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Robert_O_brian)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-this-off-the-shelf-forum-the-best-you-could-do/5508/5 "2017-06-21T21:53:44Z")

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how much do you pay it ?

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**Author:** ![Samwise\_Everquest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/samwise_everquest/32/12722_2.png) [@Samwise\_Everquest](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Samwise_Everquest)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/is-this-off-the-shelf-forum-the-best-you-could-do/5508/6 "2017-06-22T02:04:25Z")

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Am I blind? Where is the option to change?

edit: nvm found it. wide (experimental) isnt that much better.