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Comment by tarboreus | Hacker News Reader

Really hate the second column on the right, which for a long README or documentation does nothing but make it so that there's less room for the text. I frequently use GitHub to store and read notes or to create larger docs, this essentially kills my desire to do any of that and makes me want to move what I have. The information in that column is also extremely low value.

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Also there's font-size party happening on the home's right sidebar. 16px, 14px, 12px in a rapid succession.

Meanwhile, on Pull Requests' right side bar everything is rendered in 12px size.

Just to be clear, 12px is equivalent of 9pt. That's fairly small on screen. For comparison the README body text is rendered in 16px, which is equivalent of 12pt.

By the way, HN body text is 13.33px, about 10pt.

Weird design choices like this are why I've been setting minimum font sizes in my browser since the day the feature was added. It's a life saver, especially on high-resolution displays.

How do you do that?

Not only that but it also feels like everything is floating left. (Which it is but when there's nothing on the right scrolling down it looks out of place.)

I agree with you on this! The right column is just a waste of horizontal space after the first scroll down, as the information there was on the top previously (it's a few not-quite-important things that are wasting an entire column)..

Agreed - the right column is a waste of screen space and makes the reading experience generally unpleasant.

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