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It's mad that our screens had this fundamental widescreen shift and none of the user interface people changed anything. I've been moving my taskbar to the side

It's mad that our screens had this fundamental widescreen shift and none of the user interface people changed anything. I've been moving my taskbar to the side of the screen for years - it just makes so much more sense on a screen with almost twice the width as height.

flukus 6y ago
> none of the user interface people changed anything. Like a stopped clock ubuntu got this one right. As for aspect ratios, just pick a universal one please, I don't care which I just don't want to listen to my uncle complain about the black bars at the top/bottom when he's watching a movie.
PaulKeeble 6y ago
So many websites (hacker news included) just leave so much white space either side while also making you scroll. Look at the state of reddits "new" design, it uses 25% of the width of a modern screen, its absurd. Almost everyone has 16:9/16:10 nowadays you would think they might like to utilise it better.
- matthiasv 6y ago
  How would you qualify "better"? For me longer lines to read does not mean better but worse.
  - PaulKeeble 6y ago
    Absolutely agree, text has a very real limit to its width before it is hard to read. Taking reddit as an example they stack the title and the image above each other then all the links for comments, share, save ... below that. So the entire design is vertical for each post. More than that the trending is at the top and the selector for whether you want hot/new all above it. Even on 1440p I reckon about 40% of the top of my screen goes to tab/url/boomarks and the headers of the page, none of it I care about the moment I want to read that site. Reddit puts a bit of secondary stuff on the right but nothing on the left of the content at all. The content is literally 25% of the width of the screen, its mostly grey space and yet they have this entirely vertical design for every post and all their controls are at the top. It isn't the only possible way to do this and its terrible for wide screens of any type. The old design utilises widescreens a heck of a lot better which is I presume why it is quite popular.
baby 6y ago
That’s the whole point of tree style tabs and yet browsers refused to support that natively...
m463 6y ago
I've been doing the same thing, it's all on the left. I don't really know the solution for taskbars and the like. There's sidebars, taskbars, auto-hiding and popups. I've seen them all done poorly. I think the worst of all are microsoft products - somehow the online interface for microsoft word is completely different from teams, but they are both uniformly awful. Strangely I know clearly the ones I hate, but it's hard to recall the ones that work well because they're invisible.
pochamago 6y ago
Yep, I have all of my browser tabs on the side and auto hide my taskbar

flukus 6y ago

> none of the user interface people changed anything. Like a stopped clock ubuntu got this one right. As for aspect ratios, just pick a universal one please, I don't care which I just don't want to listen to my uncle complain about the black bars at the top/bottom when he's watching a movie.

PaulKeeble 6y ago

So many websites (hacker news included) just leave so much white space either side while also making you scroll. Look at the state of reddits "new" design, it uses 25% of the width of a modern screen, its absurd. Almost everyone has 16:9/16:10 nowadays you would think they might like to utilise it better.

matthiasv 6y ago
How would you qualify "better"? For me longer lines to read does not mean better but worse.
- PaulKeeble 6y ago
  Absolutely agree, text has a very real limit to its width before it is hard to read. Taking reddit as an example they stack the title and the image above each other then all the links for comments, share, save ... below that. So the entire design is vertical for each post. More than that the trending is at the top and the selector for whether you want hot/new all above it. Even on 1440p I reckon about 40% of the top of my screen goes to tab/url/boomarks and the headers of the page, none of it I care about the moment I want to read that site. Reddit puts a bit of secondary stuff on the right but nothing on the left of the content at all. The content is literally 25% of the width of the screen, its mostly grey space and yet they have this entirely vertical design for every post and all their controls are at the top. It isn't the only possible way to do this and its terrible for wide screens of any type. The old design utilises widescreens a heck of a lot better which is I presume why it is quite popular.

baby 6y ago

That’s the whole point of tree style tabs and yet browsers refused to support that natively...

m463 6y ago

I've been doing the same thing, it's all on the left. I don't really know the solution for taskbars and the like. There's sidebars, taskbars, auto-hiding and popups. I've seen them all done poorly. I think the worst of all are microsoft products - somehow the online interface for microsoft word is completely different from teams, but they are both uniformly awful. Strangely I know clearly the ones I hate, but it's hard to recall the ones that work well because they're invisible.

pochamago 6y ago

Yep, I have all of my browser tabs on the side and auto hide my taskbar