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by rement 653 days ago
I suspect they are using the 50-75 character rule for the text [0]. It makes the page look empty with so much white space. For me 100 characters is a better line length as I prefer to scan text on the web over reading it and the page doesn't look as empty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length#Electronic_text