Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Wide text lines
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 3 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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Overly wide lines make it hard to find the next lineUnreviewed
20112026- Loses place when reading paragraphs spanning ten or more lines2025-07-31
- Overly wide lines make it hard to find the next line while reading2020-05-29
- Lines spanning the full window make it hard to find the next line when returning2011-02-12
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.