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Microsoft

Jul 15, 2016

Welcome to the SharePoint group in the Office 365 Public Network

On behalf of the entire SharePoint team, I'd like to welcome you to the new Office 365 Network. We are excited to engage with you, our community, in this rich, new, open and visible experience. Best...

Danny Engelman

Iron Contributor

Jul 25, 2016

I smoke weird cigars and am not a Designer,

But the person who designed this Forum sure has an interesting take on UX.

After only 2 hours here on network.office.com my mousewheel got so hot I had to leave it for an hour.

So I smoked yet another of those weird cigars....

Then spend some hours in Stylish (or use StyleBot or any other Browser plugin that can paste CSS in any page)

My CSS is Public Domain:

https://userstyles.org/styles/130655/microsoft-network-office-com-css-enhancements

It reduces font-sizes, alternates background colors, removes UX elements I really don't care about,

and it highlights, with my own applied gold/silver badges, the persons that seem interesting.

All in CSS only

So my screen now looks like:

disclaimer: no animals were killed or jQuery was used in the production of this code

aNow I am ready for those thousands of questions here in this Forum

Danny Engelman

On my way to Ignite: http://www.bikeswap.org/ride16.html

RobOK

Bronze Contributor

Jul 26, 2016

Thank You!! This is a big improvement!

Is there any way you can reduce the height of the various blue and white bars at the top of the page?

MichaelHolste
Microsoft
Jul 27, 2016
Hey Rob, the blue and white bars are standard Microsoft branding, that wasn't a custom design and I doubt we are able to change it.
- RobOK
  Bronze Contributor
  Aug 10, 2016
  MichaelHolste wrote:
  Hey Rob, the blue and white bars are standard Microsoft branding, that wasn't a custom design and I doubt we are able to change it.
  Hi Michael,
  
  We appreciate this is a work in progress and you are making continuous improvements on usability, we look forward to the changes to come. I am not sure what you mean that the blue bars are "standard Microsoft branding". Here are several prominent Microsoft sites that have much thinner top areas and look more polished:
  
  https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Forum/bd-p/PowerAppsForum1
  https://blogs.office.com/2016/08/09/react-quickly-to-new-data-and-information-using-office-365-and-windows-10/
  https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/
  https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/
  
  Thanks,
  Rob.
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Jul 28, 2016
  MichaelHolste have a look at the customizations you have done in the Office stream forums and other ones built on top of Lithium...it seems the platform allows to do quite branding
  - MichaelHolste
    Microsoft
    Jul 28, 2016
    Hey Juan, yes it is possible. Our guidance from corp was that we needed to follow a consistent Microsoft look.