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> HN is one of the most readable sites I visit. Funny, I find it quite hard to read, since it just blows posts out to nearly full screen width. Humans read muc
by TylerE 4y ago
> HN is one of the most readable sites I visit.
Funny, I find it quite hard to read, since it just blows posts out to nearly full screen width. Humans read much better with wraps at 60-80 characters. The first line of your comment, on my screen, is 196.
- xeromal 4y agoYeah, I struggle to keep track of where I am reading when HN stretches from sea to shining sea on my ultrawide.
- cableshaft 4y agoYou could just have your browser only take up half of your ultrawide monitor if you don't like it. That's what I do. You could have a second browser window in the other half as well.
- trynewideas 4y agoExcept that at the 690px? breakpoint, HN starts requiring horizontal scroll: https://ibb.co/FqWf3t1 https://ibb.co/FqWf3t1
- cableshaft 4y agoHuh, I can't get it to do that even when shrinking the browser window to the minimum width.
- xeromal 4y agoThat's what I do. I'm just kind of nitpickin
- pwg 4y agoHN gives you the power to decide your own preferred width for reading, instead of imposing a given value upon you. By not mandating a predefined width, you have full power to view it in any width you choose, simply by either adjusting the width of the browser window within which you read HN, or by setting up a local custom user stylesheet for HN to configure HN to your personal preference.
- seanw444 4y agoYeah my browser sits at about 55% of my screen width in my tiling WM, and it makes HN perfectly readable.
- ecshafer 4y agoI have a 27" 4k monitor. I love that hackernews fills my screen. I detest the modern web design of capping the line width at giving me the middle 10% of the screen and making the rest white space. We moved on from 12" CRT screens, let us use our screen space.
- dotancohen 4y ago> Funny, I find it quite hard to read, since it just blows posts out to nearly > full screen width. Which reduces scrolling. I love it. If you don't, just resize your user agent. That's why it is referred to as a user agent, incidentally. > Humans read much better with wraps at 60-80 characters. The > first line of your comment, on my screen, is 196. Then tell the humans to resize their user agent. The current site is now accessible to both us and to the humans, no need to change it.
- jagaerglad 4y agoHot tip is to add custom CSS with something like the below, made it a so much better experience for me html { margin-left: 20vw; margin-right: 20vw; }