I have appreciated a few fixes that were done recently, as the filtering of hot stories and forum posts now being a mouse click and not mouse over activated feature. Much more user friendly imo. Also I am having much less troubles with the richtext editor.
I still think that the decision about the page width is not a good one, the reason being that
1) not everybody has a >1024 horizontal resolution
2) even those who are using 1280 - I guess that's the most common resolution - are forced to go practically fullscreen to avoid scrolling (it leaves 65 pixels on each side). I can't think of any other site that is likely open together with VGChartz that requires such width, thus forcing the user to change his/her browsing habit for this single site is going to stick out as unfriendly.
3) it's very uncomfortable for forum posts: there's a law of typography that says that the maximum comfort when reading is with lines between 50 and 70 characters. This is usually relaxed in web sites, allowing longer lines up to 90-100 characters. But in my browser's default fonts the forum posts are a whopping 154 characters. The moving eye tends to get lost in longer lines, and the reading speed and comfort plummets, plus in websites vertical space comes for free and is easy to navigate.
Basically the main offender for the width seems to be the middle column in the home page: it contains the flash bar chart (could be rescaled at will), the recent headlines (lots of empty space), the recent reviews (lots of empty space) and the forum hot topics (not much empty space, but there would be nothing wrong if the title spanned multiple lines).
So basically I don't understand why the whole layout is fixed, instead of rescaling the middle column, with a minimum compatible with 1024px width.
