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Fixed-width columns. They drive me up the wall; I've got a 1920x1080 screen because I like fitting lots of text on the screen, not because I want 75% of my screen to be white margins.

Links/buttons that open on middle-click. I middle-clicked because I wanted to open in a new tab, this page should stay where it is.

Sites that don't work at a DPI that isn't 72.

Those are the most immediate things that annoy me.

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Are you ok with reading text with ~1900px width?

It's way too wide for my taste and not very readable.

Maybe a better solution would be to progressively add more columns as the screen resolution allows, keeping each column at a fixed width. Doing this would be more challenging, though, than just using a single fixed width column that supports most of your users.

Turn that monitor to portrait mode. 1080x1920 is a great way to read the web.

It's a laptop.

Turn it on its side and get an external keyboar/mouse? :)

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