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Tangentially related, I wish more websites and blogs looked like this now. It's elegant and modern but simple.

I have come 11 days after your comment and I was looking for this exact thread within algolia until I suddenly remembered that it had sourceforge link and then remembered vim as well and I searched on algolia "vim" "sourceforge" to find it.

So its so elegant and modern that I came back to the website by searching for it so deeply xD

I do wish as voidUpdate has said that I wish for it to be a bit more centered but its overall great!

I wish it took up more than 640 pixels on the left of my 1920 pixel screen. I changed the CSS of the body to be 900pt instead of 480, and it renders at 1200px wide, which looks a lot nicer to my eyes. Didn't bother trying to center it though, which would have improved it even more

Lacks centering, other than that I also found it enjoyable to look at.

That’s a feature. It lets your thumb scroll comfortably in a larger blank area so the content is always in view for you. There is no reason for things to be centered, it does not aid readability.

Not a feature on a 32inch ultrawide.

Use smaller window

Use phone horizontally.

Much more practically, the best designs are the ones who don't demand of the user they be consumed in a single form across every scenario.

Horizontal phones haven’t been practical for a while. The weight balance is off and you are forced to use it two handed. You’ll look like a toddler.

Just as impractical as expecting the user to use tiny windows on a 32" ultrawide. It's a literal example of "telling the user they are holding it wrong" being the wrong approach to the problems.

This only works on large enough tablets. On phones the page isn't readable without a 3x zoom.

To me, the justified text makes it an effortful read.

Yup, I hope every one agrees to leave proper justified text to LaTeX/ConTeXt/Typst/<your_favorite_typesetting_software>, doing such thing for HTML is still ugly and makes things harder to read

Breaks Firefox's reader mode.

Looks like dog shit on mobile.

I agree that this general style is good, just without some of this page's fuckups.

Chrome's too, but why? It's just plain HTML.

Safari reader mode on mobile works great. But then again, this is a site where you should not need it.

Mobile browsers are assuming you're looking at a legacy page optimized for desktops (widescreen) and have a relatively large virtual screen size by default. They expect you to manually zoom in as necessary. Adding this helps:

  <meta name="viewport" content="width=640, initial-scale=1">

This matches the max-width specified by the CSS. However, a smaller viewport width might be appropriate to increase the text size on mobile.

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