Hi Shannon,

There's nothing you can do about that on your end.  The previous layout would expand to fit the entire screen, while this one is a fixed width, and gives us some more flexibility.  If you have a big monitor, it can look a bit narrow, but the alternative would be to remove the advertising, and you know how that goes :-)  I'm currently working on some enhancements to the message forum that should make it more user-friendly, should be done in a couple of days.

--Slade