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Ok, let's try that. Thanks for the suggestion!

All: if it breaks anything, would you please let us know?

(j/k you guys would never not let us know)

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Most titles now have unnecessary line breaks, in the middle of words. From the front page:

“A world first: Ocean drone captures video f[break]rom inside a hurricane”

“DMV approves Cruise and Waymo for com[break]mercial service in parts of Bay Area”

“Facebook Thrives on Criticism of “Disinfor[break]mation””

(I’m using iOS Safari.)

Ah yes. I knew we'd tried this before! Reverting...

As someone in big fintech who has to deal with regulated release processes, I would like to tip my hat to "oh that's a godd suggestion from one of our users - let's try that out on our front page as soon as I can commit it".

:-)

You want break-word, not break-all. The latter breaks short words unnecessarily.

Ok, let's try that and see what it breaks :)

Edit: done now. I can't shake the feeling that we've been through all this before, and that's why I ended up resorting to whitespace tricks in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352144. But let's wait and see what's broken now...

LGTM on iOS/Safari after clearing cache. Also on Firefox/Linux.

Unfortunately this still makes it a worse experience for "not crazy long" title words. Now it wraps all words if they hit the line break, eg. On the front page right now I see:

  Demo of a WAM Prolog Implementation in Py

  thon

Which makes it harder to read. The previous behavior would write this like:

  Demo of a WAM Prolog Implementation in

  Python

Agree. HN is so much less readable today :(

That's definitely bad but are you sure you're seeing the latest CSS? If it's still broken, I'll revert all of this. Details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28727529.

Ah, very possible it was a caching issue. It is back to good behavior for me now (maybe my cache was just refreshed?)

works well for me so far!

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