I wonder if we should make all the tabs uniform by dropping that right panel -- keep it for pages about community content, but drop it from pages about users. Maybe? It's inconsistent now, because some of those pages are necessarily wide to begin with, but it makes me wonder if we should drop it on all tabs.

I like that. For a few reasons:

• The initial tab ("Profile") is already without a right panel.
• Several of the tabs that do have a right panel have wrapping content so more of it would be visible without scrolling if they were full width.
• Switching between tabs would look smoother if the layout didn't change.
• Codidact isn't dependent on advertisers or investors, so there isn't the same demand to drive engagement at every opportunity - the right panel can be there when it's useful, rather than trying to fit it in everywhere.

Monica Cellio‭ An alternative approach (and I'm not arguing for whether it's better or worse than what you are suggesting) might be to ensure that the boxes always float below the tabs, rather than, as appears to be the case now, at the same vertical level as the tabs.

Canina‭ I think that's the proposal in the question, if I'm understanding correctly. That would work too, but thinking about how to do that made me step back and ask if we should even be showing that here in the first place. I'm raising possibilities, not asserting a preference.

Yes Canina's suggestion sounds like what I was initially suggesting (the second image in the question).

Generating the image just required drag and drop of one element in the Firefox developer window, but I guess it would be a little more involved in Ruby. The right hand panel is added implicitly, so I'm guessing we'd need to suppress the implicit render, then explicitly render it a few lines later. Still fairly quick and easy.

Monica's suggestion of omitting the right hand panel for all tabs would be easy to implement - just add one line per tab to suppress the implicit rendering of the right hand panel.

My personal preference at present is this consistent lack of right hand panel so all the tabs look consistent, but I'd be happy with either solution.

Monica Cellio‭ trichoplax‭ Quite right; re-reading, I'm not quite sure what I thought I was reading at first. Apologies!