This looks not all that different than mine.
Did you maybe have the page scaled down by CTRL + - before and did the restart reset it?
-Willem
Nope. It was most likely using the compact theme before as @AndersDeleuran mentioned. Ctrl+ or - doesn’t help with the white space proportion, just everything gets bigger or smaller proportionally.
I’m sure they just loaded a new iteration of Discourse, since a long time now, every one gets worse and not better. Note, that this is the same in both FF and Chrome.
Too bad.
I also think there is way too much whitespace. If you get a hold of that compact theme let us know.
It’s not me that created it… Looks like someone just took it out. @stevebaer?
So, is this the way it’s going to stay now? If so, I won’t be answering nearly as many questions, as the only way I can currently stand to look at this site is on my iPad.
Huh? I just got back from vacation and am trying to get caught up. I can’t tell from your image what the problem is.
Hi Mitch,
Might this topic be related:
What the heck, my theme changed just now out of the blue to a dark one?
Also the before mentioned Theme option is not available under Preferences/Interface!
What is this madness? Has somebody listened a little too much to the Black Album? 
Hi @diff-arch
Just posted the same thing - at least it’s good to know, that I’m not the only one with a dark Discourse. Hopefully it’s not a permanent state.
-Jakob
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I bet they are implementing a subscription-based pro forum! 
This is all my fault - I thought I was changing my personal settings, but apparently it was the global settings. OOPS 
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LOL… That’s funny 
No sweat @DavidEranen - hopefully you didn’t delete any categories or anything!
-Jakob
The compact theme option still appears to be missing though, as per @Helvetosaur’s initial post and my reply.
Can you set it back to the way it was (compact included)?
I thought I did. I haven’t touched any “Compact” setting, and I can’t find anything relating to that in the settings. What I do remember is that there were two styles that looked like they were custom made: Light and Dark setting. Now I can’t find the Light setting anymore - I believe Discourse has been set to the Default setting.
I need help from some Discourse experts @will @brian. How do I change Discourse’s theme back to what it was two days ago? How do I make the default theme “Compact”?
@discourse We’ve accidentally lost one of our custom themes (“compact”). Can you please help us to recover it?
/cc @stevebaer
Hm… I just googled “Oops moment” to post a funny meme here, but that’s all about showing too much skin… and now it’s too late and I have to work… darn.
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Oh no… the dreaded Discourse white space disease has somehow now propagated to my iPad… 
Well, nothing seems to be changing here… Just as as a comparison, here’s what stuff used to look like (more or less) a few days ago… (I say more or less because there’s no way to go back, so I’m relying on some 2 year old screenshots)
Discourse on my desktop in 2017:
Discourse on my iPad in 2017:
Now, for the “today” experience:
(Click on the images to experience them full-size!)
Discourse on my desktop:
Discourse on my iPad:
Discourse on my iPhone:
C’mon guys, get a clue!!! This is just not nice, it’s now extremely difficult to have an overview of all the new posts if you are not checking every 5 minutes, and the reading experience now feels a lot like this to me:
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Hi Mitch, I’ve asked the Discourse people to look into what happened here.
-wim