yup, it was an ad at the top that was giving me the big grey inch or more of nothingness. apparently easily resolved by adding yet another ad blocker that removes the space as well. and that also helped me not have to scroll to log in or out any longer either.

so, i 'spose the moral of it all boils down to this: subscribe heavily in ad blockers and this site becomes infinitely easier to use :)

gotta say tho', this re-design, imo, is much better than the last incarnation overall, so cheers on that. p'raps finer tweaking will occur, but at least one can navigate more intuitively [even if there might be one+ more clicks]. i do like the suggestion of being able to make my own bookmarks onsite - didn't know such a thing was even out there, but it'd be awesome if RO could manage that trick...