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ValdikSS ◴[] No.42600392[source]
The page is so narrow, like it's made for a vertical smartphone screen. That's ANNOYING!
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nayuki ◴[] No.42600519[source]
Look up any typographic manual and you'll learn that you can't make lines of text too wide or else people will have trouble reading them. Example - https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html .

This is also related to why professional newspapers and magazines lay out text in relatively narrow columns, because they are easy to scan just top-down while hardly moving your eyes left-right.

I do think that vertical phones are too narrow for conveying decent text, but you also can't have completely unbounded page widths because people do run browsers maximized on desktop 4K screens.

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1. rchaud ◴[] No.42601763[source]
Well, that site also has this: https://practicaltypography.com/columns.html

The style of the page can use CSS column properties to make use of the width of laptop/tablet displays, instead of defaulting to ugly "mobile size fits all" templates.