I agree. Having "forum buddy" follow me is annoying. Just ten minutes ago, I went to urinate. I looked back and Forum Buddy was standing right behind me, trying to be helpful. Stop stalking me, Forum Buddy!!

I run 1152x864 resolution, I need to zoom out TWICE before I can see the full site. That means I can't read any of the text well. Here's a screen in 1152x864:

My problem with this forum buddy is it doesn't appear on smartphones, will there be an option in the future?

Apart from that, the site is amazing!

I understand the idea behind the forum's design and the forum buddy. The only thing that I think should be done is make the site's width dependant on the user's resolution, like 90% of the websites out there do. With a fixed width like this, many users fall out of the ideal layout. With a variable, resolution dependant width, all users will see the full 100% of the website's layout.

What I don't know is if that can be easily tweaked or if that requires an entire redesign again (but I'm guessing it's the former).

This option to turn it on/off, can this be a clickable box in our dropdown profile in the top right and not burried in the profile options.  I'm sure many posters would still like the box, but just to check their threads and not be followed up and down the pages by some annoying moving box.

That would not help, as being able to see your recent threads and if there are new posts/replies is an essential feature of the website.

As for sites with variable width, about 90% of the sites I have visited in my life have them or at least are fully functional even with a 1024x768 resolution. Competing sites like IGN, Gamespot and GameTrailers work 100% fine on any resolution.

How about having it pop out of the side when you mouse to the edge (as an option in our profile settings)

It would also be cool to have options for a couple of other peoples suggestions too:

1. Turn it off or on (not sure why people would want to turn it off, but each to their own)

2. Variable movement options: (a) stay still at the top of the page, (b) stay still in the browser window [would be my choice], (c*) current sliding movement, (d) pop-out option as mentioned above.....maybe the left 5-10 pixels, or whatever would allow it's use on a 1024px screen which is the lowest resolution that any significant number of people will be using.

I thought you were being a little over the top for a minute as I don't see many website with fluid layouts (but by fully functional I guess you include static sites as long as they work at the standard 1024 width), most are static... the only ones I frequently use that have fluid widths are google, my hotmail (but not msn.com when you log out of hotmail) and wikipedia. Oh and the school I worked at used moodle for it's VLE (virtual learning environment) which was also fluid... but it was horrid on lower resolutions so IMO shouldn't count.

I agree though that features like that should not be "locked out" from users with lower than what looks to be about 1350px wide screens (mine is 1366 luckily). Adverts and background images or patterns are nice to fill the spaces so that wider screens don't have to be filled with block colour, but website features should be accessible to 99% of users at least.

Kill it with fire. Along with the awful color scheme of this site >.

How do I "zoom out?"
When I click on the minus button in Firefox only the text becomes smaller, but not the page itself. :/