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Calambres:

--- Quote from: Canis Dirus Leidy on January 21, 2023, 04:35:48 am ---So far, it is possible to evade the party line by manually adding "useskin=vector" option to URL...

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more precisely "?useskin=vector" as in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=vector
voltsandjolts:
I like the shorter word count per line and zooming uses all screen space, if that annoys.
PlainName:
Zooming enlarges the font and stuff.

I think the issue is not the white space per se,  but the reduction of content in order to have that white space. If the content were naturally smaller (that is, there was little of it) then the white space would be fine. Zooming in doesn't increase the content density back to what it used to be, it just distributes the white space between the letters instead.
tom66:
There's a very simple way to fix the skin - just give an option to expand the content to fill the full page.
hans:
Half of the internet is designed in this retarded way. Some sites only occupy 50% of screen width on a 1080p screen, so that's 25% on 4K with same DPI settings. I zoom into 150% on most sites as it relieves some eye strain. It's kind of strange since a lot of webdevs claim to make fluid layouts that are suitable for mobile, small and large displays. But then they are still able to produce this kind of crap. It's very annoying.

But honestly less annoying than some other website features: like cluttered navigation systems, high amounts of padding, websites that are completely decorated in ads (hmm, maybe that's why people use adblock to get a sane internet, and maybe that's why they reserve all that empty space?)..
Or shit like hover dropdown menus drive me crazy, they are the worst (goodbye accessibility for the less well coordinated among us, and goodbye usage on phone)

I've used a restyling plugin for many years with custom CSS scripts, but as soon the news got out that the plugin was infected I uninstalled it and didn't look back. Going to large efforts of customization only makes my system installations less portable across multiple machines or reinstalls, which is also something I've started to hate since it increases the effort threshold to switch systems for me (I daily drive 3-4 computers on a day).
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