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Oh thank god, the new theme makes me so angry. I did the math, and 41.6% of my monitor's width is just blank padding. I don't want to make another account on a
by manchmalscott 4y ago
Oh thank god, the new theme makes me so angry. I did the math, and 41.6% of my monitor's width is just blank padding. I don't want to make another account on a website just to have it be usable again.
- rnd0 4y agoHah I came to type exactly "Oh thank god" -seriously was hoping something like this would come out. I haven't had to have an account to use wikipedia for the last 20 years and there's no good reason at all to begin using one now.
- afandian 4y agoI did simpler mathematics than you, and I count three hamburger menus on one page...
- pessimizer 4y agoPeople who love to talk about how it's objectively better to have tons of whitespace should research how often people ever use (or even notice) hamburger menus.
- hexo 4y agoI'd ban those. Gimme normal menus back!
- aquova 4y agoNote that there is a button in the bottom right of the window that expands the article's width to take up much more of the page.
- trynewideas 4y agoThere's also a feature request and proof-of-concept patch to implement persistent preferences for viewers who aren't logged in. The proof-of-concept already remembers whether the max width toggle is enabled: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321498 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321498
- interestica 4y agoWhat button are you referring to?
- aquova 4y agoPerhaps it hasn't rolled out to everyone, but if I go to any Wikipedia article, there is a rectangular button in the lower right with the alt text "Toggle limited content width". Clicking it removes most of the margins on either side of the article.
- interestica 4y agoIt's tied to page zoom and viewport so it wouldn't show for me.
- trynewideas 4y agoIf your viewport is >1600px wide you should see a small square gray button resembling a full-screen toggle in the bottom-right corner of the browser. Click it and the max-width limit on content is reverted and fills the viewport width. Images: https://imgur.com/a/UMxtP61 https://imgur.com/a/UMxtP61
- interestica 4y agoI had zoom on at 150% and it doesn't show that button. Thanks.
- angry_moose 4y agoIs there a way to make it sticky? I have to repress the button on every new article I open.
- trynewideas 4y agoThere's a feature request for that: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321498 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321498
- BitwiseFool 4y agoThere needs to be a way to persist this setting. It is maddening to have to click it on every new page I visit. They made the preference for article previews persist, why did they not do the same for this?
- sgt 4y agoSeems to make articles more readable to me.
- interestica 4y agoFor me, it seems that just making the general tables wide makes a huge difference. .wikitable { width: 100%; }