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Isn´t it a very obvious thing to get the idea that the information of this site should not be hidden inside an ancient three-column design that resembles the an
by POPOSYS 4y ago
Isn´t it a very obvious thing to get the idea that the information of this site should not be hidden inside an ancient three-column design that resembles the antique NukeCMS (PHP)?
Why is the most important coder website build in a way that hides information so hard?
What purpose do the left and right column with empty space serve?
Once I used to install some user css to get 100% width for the content, but I got tired to do that.
How can such a design dinosaur survive for so long right in the center of "modern development tools"?
- jrimbault 4y agoAre you talking about news.ycombinator.com ? If you are, it's because this is not « the center of "modern development tools" ». It's a textboard and it serves that purpose well. And this is completely off topic.
- kroltan 4y agoNo, they are talking about GitHub's website, which wastes a lot of horizontal space only to then show a horizontal scrollbar within the content: https://i.imgur.com/HkgCq98.png https://i.imgur.com/HkgCq98.png If it did not explicitly set a max width, then the code would be much more convenient to read: https://i.imgur.com/hxoHJHM.png https://i.imgur.com/hxoHJHM.png It's a critique of overarching design consistency trumping actual usability. --- Though to be fair it is still against the guidelines: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
- eimrine 4y agoThank you for giving a link with these quotes, I haven't seen it before I tried to open link from your screenshot. BTW I do not see no issues: https://imgur.com/a/2Kq4K4r https://imgur.com/a/2Kq4K4r