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16:9 displays

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2017–2022), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with 16:9 displays, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 3 complaints

Widescreen aspect ratio forces two-window workflow and wastes vertical text rows2022-05-20
Programs with lots of UI, like Premiere or Photoshop, are cramped on a 16:9 laptop screen2021-01-20
Fixed taskbars, toolbars and website navigation bars eat vertical space, leaving less visible content2017-09-17