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Centered text
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2010–2021), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Centered text, 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 4 complaints
- Code in centered columns forces horizontal scrolling and leaves most of the page blank2021-05-21
- Resizing the window moves page elements, breaking the user's muscle memory and window arrangements2021-01-30
- Centered text with ragged edges is harder to read than left-aligned text2011-01-21
- Centered headings interrupt scanning because the eye must jump to the middle of the page2010-07-10