I’ve heard many people saying that the front-end looks old and needs more work, but I’ve never heard someone describe how it could look better. To me, it looks perfectly fine. I wish it had a card layout similar to libreddit, but aside from that, I think it’s nice. If people want a completely different look, then there’s lemmyBB, and there will probably be other front-ends in the future. However, we should hear opinions about which styles people want.
As average monitor resolution grows slowly over time, the average user interface scales up to match the size of the monitor, to the point where it becomes uncomfortably cramped to work in a window that’s sized at or below half a monitor dimension.
Old operating systems used to operate entirely in a 400x300 pixel display (Mac OS 7 for example). A lot of modern applications probably won’t even let you shrink the window that small.
Strange. I do it daily. Websites and apps all look as they are supposed to.
There’s good reason no book or news paper has lines of text that are 150+ characters long. It makes it more difficult to read.
People use ultra-wide displays, where it only makes sense to use windows that are a 4th of the full width. They have the same vertical resolution, and it’s functionally no different than using a half a 16/9 display.
It’s something you’d get used to.
I just tried it. No way I can fit 3 columns on a 16:9 4k monitor, which means the main window area is offset to one side, which would quickly drive me crazy. Same reason I have never understood the ultrawide trend. I have three monitors and it works a lot like your screenshot but way less cramped.
That looks hideous and distracting to me. I don’t want my stuff that cluttered. I wouldn’t be able to focus.
That I can understand. There are times when I get rid of other windows. But even then my focus window is rarely full screen. Mostly just when it’s a movie.