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by crazygringo 1378 days ago
...no?

I have lots of tabs open, and every other site I use chooses a legible width.

You think I'm going to resize my browser window narrower every time I switch to HN, and resize it wider every time I switch to a different tab?

Sites are designed. Legibility is part of design. Appropriate characters per line is part of legibility. Full stop.
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userbinator 1378 days ago
You think I'm going to resize my browser window narrower every time I switch to HN, and resize it wider every time I switch to a different tab?

Or you could just put it in a separate window of the desired width; maybe then you'd even have enough space on your huge monitor to see several sites all at once!

As I wrote the post above, I had about a dozen different windows open, all of varying sizes. Monitors have gotten much bigger, yet the users seem to have gotten worse at making good use of that space.

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crazygringo 1375 days ago
Why the heck would I want to put HN in a separate window instead of with the rest of my tabs? I only want one browser window, I'm not going to change my workflow to accomodate a single badly designed site, nor should I have to.

(Nor do I have a huge monitor, I'm on a laptop...)

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arcanemachined 1378 days ago
Sounds like you need Stylus, or some other browser extension that allows for custom CSS rules.

Not disagreeing with your premise BTW.

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