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What's up with the huge amount of whitespace? This is supposed to be an information dense website, most of the screen is empty white. Not liking this, who designs this stuff? How to revert back, or I just need to add custom styles?

Update: I added custom styles to remove 95% of the extra margins, padding, spacing, line-height, updated h1/h2/h3/h4 header styling, code highlight styling, and it looks 10 times better, I can actually read the information. Unfortunately I still prefer the previous version

Question: Why do these important sites never get actual user feedback before forcing out a major update as a big "surprise" ?

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> Why do these important sites never get actual user feedback before forcing out a major update as a big "surprise" ?

The people behind the redesign do so for career, resume & portfolio reasons - they are very unlikely to ever use MDN themselves so they don't care and don't see the problem. You can't rely on user feedback because there's a very high risk users will tell you everything is fine and there's no need for you to mess with anything.

So...they should change their tagline to: Resources for Developers, by UI Designers

Damn, it sure would be terrible to keep the UI the same even when the users say it’s, you know, fine the way it is. Ugh.

Ok I added styles that I am using for the site, I included Before and After screenshots, see link https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/5389

Also interested in the custom styles. Although I like the redesign, it's all over the place typographically – 300 only for h1, 400 for h2 with a slight increase in letter spacing (?!) – but can't be bothered to apply a fix myself.

can you share your custom styles?

I'm still working on it. There is a large amount of things to fix. This is the #1 source of web dev information, and from what I can tell they completely screwed it up with this "design update"

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