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
Thanks @wim! While you’re at it, you might mention how ridiculous the thing looks on an iPhone (I suppose other mobiles as well) - and this even before the whitespace mess happened. The avatar of the latest poster in the leftmost column is now the most important visual element - basically what that says to me is who posted the message is deemed to be more important than the actual message content.
Looks like the social network-izing of Discourse.
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This isn’t the first symptom either…
Philip
Hey Mitch, the compact theme should be available again - is it more or less like it used to be a few days ago?
-wim
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Yessss !! Way better. 
It looks like this now:
I don’t actually see a compact theme listed in preferences, so I take it that Default is now compact?
What’s funny here is if I log out, then it goes back to being huge again. If I log back in, then it gets compact again. Is that how it’s supposed to work? Do I have some hidden preferences stored somewhere?
I’m not going to pretend that I understand any of this, Mitch.
I see that there are only 2 themes that are “active” - the dark one and the light (compact) one. When I tested “logged off” before the compact theme was reinstated, I also got the light (big) one, so that must somehow be the default… But other than that, yes, I would expect your preferences to be stored on the server.
-wim
Dang, I did not even know about this compact thing … now I want compact+dark. 
@jdhill I had a go at creating one using the CSS overrides from the Light (Compact) theme and the Dark colour scheme. Try it!
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Genius!
¡mil gracias!