Are you talking about news.ycombinator.com ?
If you are, it's because this is not « the center of "modern development tools" ». It's a textboard and it serves that purpose well.
And this is completely off topic.
If you are, it's because this is not « the center of "modern development tools" ». It's a textboard and it serves that purpose well.
And this is completely off topic.
https://i.imgur.com/HkgCq98.png
If it did not explicitly set a max width, then the code would be much more convenient to read: https://i.imgur.com/hxoHJHM.png
It's a critique of overarching design consistency trumping actual usability.
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Though to be fair it is still against the guidelines:
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.