[Roll eye for the answer will cause this]. The redesign looks as if the website / forum was to fit touch/tablet/smartphones... nothing else counting . Admittedly, it looks great on my Nexus 7, bar my fat fingers have trouble to hit the right pointing arrow, often getting redirected to the member info instead, so now zoom the screen first [2 fingers you touch screen, then move apart].

That said, many websites have adopted this way of presentation, with the adds and what not filling in the left and right margins. Here's one really low bandwidth: http://www.corriere.it/index.shtml?refresh_ce

More said, you can zoom using the browser. With an add in like NoSquint, you can even save different zoom levels per website. When you do that in general, the badges suffer, turn really coarse, but who cares. NoSquint allows to zoom text separately of graphics, so then things look ok again.

Using Vivaldi. I can do that but I had in mind to make the width full screen at this text resolution