I noticed that this forum isn't high-res or widescreen friendly, so I went to a very good friend of mine who happens to be an artist for the Louvre in France recovering damaged paintings, and the above image was his end result.
As you can see, there's a lot of unused real-estate on the sides, the title bars are offset from the border, the forum tags use a lot of unnecessary and repetitive information, and HurtfulTurkey is awesome. I think we can agree that all but one of those issues is detrimental to the overall experience, and it doesn't make sense to waste so much space.
You may be saying, "Shut up Turkey, you magnificent bastard, I don't see you presenting any good ideas."
Well, I'd like to present you with the following (slightly NSFW):
[url=http://i.imgur.com/5rk9vJA.jpg]Bungie.nexter[/url]
Discuss.
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I for one support this new proposed layout.