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Hello, imo the trend of websites adding more spacing (padding) as the years go by is annoying, so I decided to do something about it. I hope this to become a m

Hello, imo the trend of websites adding more spacing (padding) as the years go by is annoying, so I decided to do something about it. I hope this to become a manually curated, collaborative effort, but so far the 500 lines CSS are for GitHub, GitLab, Reddit and Twitter only.

wuyishan 4y ago
Thanks for building this! Especially on small screens the (useless?) whitespace is annoying and rather distracting. The problem with whitespace (or also colored whitespace) is in my opinion a true problem on mobile devices too. The ratio between available information and screen estate is oftentimes very off.
- sokoloff 4y ago
  I have a gallery of screenshots from Zoom meetings where (mostly tech workers) are pushing 50-70% content-free pixels in their screen share. 75% of the time, I just find it amusing, but 25% of the time it drives me crazy. I wonder what they’re thinking when they start a screen share to push so few pixels of content.
gruez 4y ago
I tried out the github style and while I liked the increased density, the lack of padding caused issues on a 27" monitor. For instance, the file listing ended up taking up almost the entire width of the monitor, which made it hard to read because it was too wide[1]. [1] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/recommended-column-width-for-text-reading-digital-vs-printed https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/reco...
- phil294 4y ago
  Thanks for your input. Yes, but I don't really know how to fix it. I mean we could add a guideline for future rules (and update the existing ones) to always use `max-width 45em` or the like for text instead of `100%`, whenever possible. That would complicate things quite a bit though, currently it's as easy as it gets... I am also not super sold on capping max width. My personal take is, if text gets unreadable for you on a 27 inch screen, then don't buy a 27 inch screen, or at least resize the browser window accordingly. I haven't grasped yet why anyone would want to have a large widescreen display/window for reading text, I think it's only counterproductive. That is admittedly a rather egoistic take though, and insane screen resolutions are seemingly becoming the norm now, so I don't know what to do.

wuyishan 4y ago

Thanks for building this! Especially on small screens the (useless?) whitespace is annoying and rather distracting. The problem with whitespace (or also colored whitespace) is in my opinion a true problem on mobile devices too. The ratio between available information and screen estate is oftentimes very off.

sokoloff 4y ago
I have a gallery of screenshots from Zoom meetings where (mostly tech workers) are pushing 50-70% content-free pixels in their screen share. 75% of the time, I just find it amusing, but 25% of the time it drives me crazy. I wonder what they’re thinking when they start a screen share to push so few pixels of content.

gruez 4y ago

I tried out the github style and while I liked the increased density, the lack of padding caused issues on a 27" monitor. For instance, the file listing ended up taking up almost the entire width of the monitor, which made it hard to read because it was too wide[1]. [1] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/recommended-column-width-for-text-reading-digital-vs-printed https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/reco...

phil294 4y ago
Thanks for your input. Yes, but I don't really know how to fix it. I mean we could add a guideline for future rules (and update the existing ones) to always use `max-width 45em` or the like for text instead of `100%`, whenever possible. That would complicate things quite a bit though, currently it's as easy as it gets... I am also not super sold on capping max width. My personal take is, if text gets unreadable for you on a 27 inch screen, then don't buy a 27 inch screen, or at least resize the browser window accordingly. I haven't grasped yet why anyone would want to have a large widescreen display/window for reading text, I think it's only counterproductive. That is admittedly a rather egoistic take though, and insane screen resolutions are seemingly becoming the norm now, so I don't know what to do.