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There is a reasone we use left and right margin/padding.

This blog is quite unreadable for 27/32" monitors.

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Toggle to "reader view" or resize your window. It is up to you and really isn't that hard.

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink"

Reader view makes the text too narrow: https://imgur.com/a/yQqzxco

Sure i could take extra steps to make it more readable, but at that point I rather not read it as im not that interested nor invested.

Totally fine, no complains from my side. But If the author wants to increase the reach of their posts they just might use agentic coding to have the llm optimize the website for readability.

"Reader view" is adjustable via your personal settings, so I am not sure what you are talking about.

The point of a wide monitor for me is to have two 720 wide windows side by side, not a single gigantic 1440 window with impossibly long lines.

There’s a reason not to maximize your browser windows. How do you handle HN threads on that monitor?

Why would you work with anything other than maximized windows unless you have a super ultra wide display?

Because not all content is suitable to be stretched out 16:9 (or whatever the screen ratio of your desktop monitor is). In fact, in my experience most web site content isn’t suitable for it. The default browser window size I use is closer to 4:3 for that reason. There’s also software to auto-resize the window to different widths and to auto-place it to different horizontal positions depending on the website, that you can configure for frequently used websites.

Actually HN handles it almost perfectly. The automatic line breaks are really good.

Only complain would be that its sometimes difficult to see the parent comment(s) when you scroll down.

HN could fix this quite easily by making the current parents sticky while you scroll.

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