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| Oct 29, 2018 at 14:38 | comment | added | JimmyJames | @NicolBolas I get that but there are other things on the page than just paragraphs of text. Just seems like a waste to me to leave a full third completely empty. | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 2:27 | comment | added | Nicol Bolas | @JimmyJames: This is also why, when print media tries to cram lots of words into a small space with small fonts, they usually resort to a multi-column layout, rather than excessively long lines. | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 2:25 | comment | added | Nicol Bolas | @JimmyJames: It's a well-established principle of UX design that people can only read left-to-right so far before it becomes difficult/tiresome for them to do so. People have a tendency to lose the line they're reading when they try to jump to the next one. The longer they read, the worse it gets. While that width may differ from person to person, everyone has a width beyond which we just don't handle well. So having a maximum width allows the user to keep their browser at whatever size they prefer, while still getting the site in a readable fashion. | |
| Oct 10, 2018 at 14:37 | comment | added | JimmyJames | I've never understood the reasoning behind websites that leave huge amounts of blank margins. About 1/3 of the page is just empty space on my monitor. | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 7:02 | comment | added | Martin Maat | @Nicol Bolas I had the old page still on another computer and noticed it indeed stops growing at a certain pixel width. The rectangle around in the new design just makes it more apparent that it does and makes it look more constrained and narrow. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 22:39 | comment | added | Nicol Bolas | As far as I can tell, the old design never scaled. That is, it didn't automatically make the width big enough for any window. Not unless you were using some user-script to change its fixed-width. Indeed, one of the main points of the new design is that it scales down. That is, it has a maximum width, but it handles shrinking better. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 20:22 | comment | added | Martin Maat | @Nicol Bolas OK thanks, that's a little better but now the options are just nowhere. And the whole page doesn't scale anymore, it is just a fixed size no matter how big my screen is (taking deep breath, counting...). It is like a bunch of hooligans just trampled over the design. This site had one of the best designed layouts I ever encountered on the web and now it looks like some rudimentary template in a mediocre everyone-can-make-a-website product. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | Nicol Bolas | Then change your preferences to make them into a pull-down menu. That is, there is an option to do that; it's just not visible on the main page. You have to go into your user preferences to do that. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 5:56 | history | answered | Martin Maat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |