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This is terrible advice and is a massive hack as well as being a terrible misuse of hr element.

Also I'm not sure I want to take advice on how to lay out my content from someone who claims to be a designer but has his content in such a limited space (less than 40% of my screen space on a 15 inch monitor) and all the way to the left.

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Text is easier to read when narrow. Agree on the centering.. working on some solutions for it. I only had ~1h to put into the site.

> Text is easier to read when narrow.

Have you A/B tested that?

Text is annoying to read when it's too narrow, yours is too narrow. Bumping it up from 500px to 800px makes it look less sparse and is still readable.

For the centering, margin: 0 auto; on .textWrapper is an improvement.

Goes against the MD style of the homepage.. trying to find another solution.

Making the content 800px wide and setting the margin the same way looked perfectly fine on both the blog post and the home page, much better than all the way to the left and smaller.

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