Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites with long text lines
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Text lines are too long to read comfortablyUnreviewed
20112026- Text lines are too long to read, and resizing the window adds whitespace or scrollbars2022-09-10
- Lines are too long, forcing horizontal scrolling and making text hard to read2013-12-27
- Full-width text blocks on wide windows produce unreadably long lines2011-01-07
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 6 complaints
- Content squeezed into a tiny centered column with wide empty margins on large screens2026-03-27
- Justified text is hard to read, especially on mobile screens2025-02-24
- Wall-to-wall text, negligible margins and mixed text sizes make pages hard to read2024-02-10
- Text lines are too long to read, and resizing the window adds whitespace or scrollbars2022-09-10
- Lines are too long, forcing horizontal scrolling and making text hard to read2013-12-27
- Full-width text blocks on wide windows produce unreadably long lines2011-01-07