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Are 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
by jrimbault 4y ago
Are 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