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Because if you're maximizing every window on a desktop OS then you're Doin' It Wrong

No. It just means you're doing it the way you prefer.

People shouldn't be required to resize their browser window to suit the site - it should adapt. (I'm not suggesting 16pt line of text running the full screen width)

For Github, I use the "Github Wide" Stylus style - I now have a workable diff UI. (ironically, I think it breaks the dashboard layout) - judging by the article, I may not require it soon.

I've been using cfoellmann's fork [1] ; and have updated the "Applies to" to URLs matching the regexp `https:\/\/github\.com\/.+\/.+` so it gets applied only to any content within a repository; I remember changing it when having this style (or mdo's?) enabled broke profile views.

[1] https://userstyles.org/styles/108591/github-wide

Ah thanks! "Applies to" fixed it... obvious, in hindsight.

(I wish the "applies to" would persist over updates).

ugh, dashboard starting to look like facebook...

What is it then? New github homepage is extremely bad at a reduced size as well.

below 1012 pixels and they remove search and anything in navigation for a hamburger button, where there is clearly still enough room for these elements.

at 768 pixels they remove the new repository button.

They should be focusing on their desktop experience. Sure their mobile experience is still fucked, but you'll find that at least 90% of people using github every day are form a PC. Who programs from their phone?

The fucking navigation menu on a browser that big is pretty inexcusable. It's a step back from any coherent design

> below 1012 pixels they remove search and anything in navigation for a hamburger button

I’ve notified this is increasingly common now. Super frustrating that I can’t have two windows side-by-side on my laptop and still use the effectively. Despite the fact that it’s about 8-16x the size of a phone screen, it gets reduced to a mobile looking layout.

This kills the productivity.

And prey you don't use vertical monitors. I can only feel the depths of hell you would have to navigate being given a mobile interface with keyboard and mouse because a user decides that vertical reading space suits their tasks

That might be true, but right now i don't want to focus on anything but github, so why shouldn't i be able to use all my screen space for it?

That may be true on windows or some flavours of desktop Linux where simple windows management have existed for some time (windows 10 being a real champ of multiple frame management on the same display), but if you're on a Mac you're stuck with a real mess that requires a lot of manual screen size management.

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