Rmember when webpages used to fill the entire screen?

Rmember when webpages used to fill the entire screen?
This "center everything" trend is retarded.

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Remember that those webpages were meant for screens with 3:4 as aspect ratio? Remember that having a web browser maximized is for retards? Remember that navigating on such a website on a modern display is annoying with how far every single element is away from each other?

fpbp

If you want to keep people reading your text it's highly advised to never have more than 16 words on one line.

See, the problem is that modern webpages don't have any content that could fill the screen.
Modern webpages are kilometer-long scrolling adventures filled with primary colours and banal quotes (at one per screen ratio), plus an 18MB auto-playing video of young people doing outdoor activities with excessive lens-flare (bonus points for auto-playing sound).

>people
'''people'''

Scares the zoomer.

This. Resizable windows are a thing. And reading lines from one far end of the screen to another is just a nuisance.

Remember when those websites actually scale with the window size so none of your arguments make sense

This. Also we're in an age where everyone is either anxious or has attention span, so putting so much shit in your screen with a tiny font drives people away. Even though it looks old, Jow Forums's minimalistic design is one of the reasons why it suceeds over traditional discussion forums, which fill the entire screen with all the information they can put there.

Remember when a vertical list didn't have fuckloads of white space in between elements and caused you to scroll through twice as many screen fulls as before, while also requiring javascript and not having support for opening links in tabs?

Uhm, no?

Yeah, I inverted the booleans of the second half.

Imagine a prepended exclamation mark for the part after the comma.

Facebook and Twitter actually look better on a 4:3 monitor compared to a 16:9 monitor. You get more vertical space for content and it's not like there's anything on the sides. Not even ads.

Unless your 16:9 monitor has a higher vertical resolution than your 4:3 monitor. Most do.

>he doesn't run his crt at 2048x1536
Only 4K monitors exceed the line count, but even then modern websites look weird since you have all that blank space.

is this a thread for zoomers larping as old guard? there was a good 5-6 years gap between widescreens becoming common and centered design taking off outside of blogs

>open a website in a half-width browser window
>website assumes that you're on a mobile device and shows you mobile styling

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>open website in full screen
>site uses half the window
>resize window to half screen
>site resizes to half that window

Fucking youtube, and you have to scroll past a list of videos to get to the comments.

Content should flow like water. Margins are okay, but if it takes away from the site's usability then it's a problem ie small fonts

hate that shit
responsive design my ass

That's what happens when you hardcode borders with CSS. Set it to fill 50% of the screen and it'll do just that.

Because full width is fucking retarded for dynamic content.

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Japanese websites tend to still behave like that.

That's because Japanese web designers know what's functional and what's useless eye cancy for silicon valley hipster numales.

websites have only gotten wider if anything

>multiple paragraphs on one line